Effects of nicotine and mecamylamine on choice accuracy in an operant visual signal detection task in female rats

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 164, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 369-375

  Rezvani, Amir H ^a   Bushnell, Philip J ^b   Levin, Edward D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognition; Nicotinic systems; Signal detection task

Indexed keywords

4 [[2 (1 METHYL 2 PYRROLIDINYL)ETHYL]THIO]PHENOL; DIZOCILPINE; MECAMYLAMINE; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGENT;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REDUCTION; SIGNAL DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; MECAMYLAMINE; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC ANTAGONISTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0036451419     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-002-1221-0     Document Type: Article

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