Unilateral striatal lesions impair response execution on a lateralised choice reaction time task

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 159-171

  Döbrössy, Màtè D ^a   Dunnett, Stephen B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amphetamine; Ibotenic acid; Motor programming; Neostriatum; Reaction time; Striatal lesions

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEOSTRIATUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEXTROAMPHETAMINE; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; IBOTENIC ACID; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 17144453496     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(97)02283-3     Document Type: Article

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