Cocaine-experienced rats exhibit learning deficits in a task sensitive to orbitofrontal cortex lesions

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1997-2002

  Schoenbaum, Geoffrey ^a   Saddoris, Michael R ^b   Ramus, Seth J ^c   Shaham, Yavin ^d   Setlow, Barry ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOWDOIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Addiction; Discrimination; Learning; Motivation; Olfactory; Reversal

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING DISORDER; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; SENSITIZATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COCAINE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ODORS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; REVERSAL LEARNING;

EID: 1842734287     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03274.x     Document Type: Article

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