Methamphetamine exposure from postnatal day 11 to 20 causes impairments in both behavioral strategies and spatial learning in adult rats

Brain Research

Volumn 958, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 312-321

  Williams, Michael T ^a   Vorhees, Charles V ^a   Boon, Francis ^b   Saber, Andrea J ^b   Cain, Donald P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Learning; Methamphetamine; Neonatal; Pretraining; Sensorimotor; Thigmotaxis; Water maze

Indexed keywords

METHAMPHETAMINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CLIMBING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; METHAMPHETAMINE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037184687     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(02)03620-X     Document Type: Article

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