The 5-choice serial reaction time task: Behavioural pharmacology and functional neurochemistry

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 163, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 362-380

  Robbins, T W ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; ADHD; Alzheimer's disease; Amphetamine; Attention; Catecholamines; Dopamine; Five choice serial reaction time task; Nicotine; Noradrenaline; Nucleus accumbens; Prefrontal cortex; Schizophrenia; Serotonin; Striatum

Indexed keywords

(3 CHLOROPHENYL)PIPERAZINE; 2 DIPROPYLAMINO 8 HYDROXYTETRALIN; 2,3,4,5 TETRAHYDRO 7,8 DIHYDROXY 1 PHENYL 1H 3 BENZAZEPINE; 8 CHLORO 2,3,4,5 TETRAHYDRO 3 METHYL 5 PHENYL 1H 3 BENZAZEPIN 7 OL HYDROGEN MALEATE; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ATIPAMEZOLE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; CLONIDINE; DEXAMPHETAMINE; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; EXCITOTOXIN; FLUPENTIXOL; GUANFACINE; KETANSERIN; METHYLPHENIDATE; MUSCIMOL; NEUROTOXIN; NICOTINE; PRAZOSIN; QUIPAZINE; R 177779; RACLOPRIDE; RITANSERIN; SCOPOLAMINE; SER 082; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR; SIB 1765 F; SULPIRIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ACCURACY; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CORPUS STRIATUM; FOREBRAIN; HUMAN; MICRODIALYSIS; MONOAMINERGIC SYSTEM; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; AMPHETAMINE; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CLONIDINE; DOPAMINE ANTAGONISTS; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; HALOPERIDOL; METHYLPHENIDATE; NOREPINEPHRINE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEROTONIN;

EID: 0036392579     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-002-1154-7     Document Type: Review

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