Cholinergic Modulation of Visual Attention and Working Memory: Dissociable Effects of Basal Forebrain 192-IgG-saporin Lesions and Intraprefrontal Infusions of Scopolamine

Learning and Memory

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 78-86

  Chudasama, Yogita ^a,b   Dalley, Jeffrey W ^a   Nathwani, Falgyni ^a   Bouger, Pascale ^a   Robbins, Trevor W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; SAPORIN; SCOPOLAMINE;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BRAIN INJURY; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS BASALIS MAGNOCELLULARIS; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADJUVANTS, ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ATTENTION; BASAL NUCLEUS OF MEYNERT; CHOLINERGIC AGENTS; IMMUNOTOXINS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SCOPOLAMINE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0842282612     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.70904     Document Type: Article

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