Increases in cortical acetylcholine release during sustained attention performance in rats

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 313-325

  Himmelheber, Anne Marie ^a   Sarter, Martin ^a   Bruno, John P ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Basal forebrain; Cortex; Microdialysis; Operant performance; Sustained attention

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; FRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TRAINING;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; PROSENCEPHALON; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0034052433     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-6410(00)00012-4     Document Type: Article

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