Systemic and prefrontal cortical NMDA receptor blockade differentially affect discrimination learning and set-shift ability in rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 420-428

  Stefani, Mark R ^a,b   Moghaddam, Bita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Glutamate; Prefrontal cortex; Schizophrenia; Wisconsin Card Sort Task

Indexed keywords

DIZOCILPINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DIZOCILPINE MALEATE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 17444375268     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.119.2.420     Document Type: Article

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