The role of the GABAA agonist muscimol on memory performance: Reward contingencies determine the nature of the deficit

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 184-191

  Ramirez, Donna R ^a   Buzzetti, Robert A ^a   Savage, Lisa M ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential outcomes; Muscimol; Rat; Reward; Working memory

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; MUSCIMOL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; RAT; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GABA AGONISTS; MALE; MEMORY; MUSCIMOL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; REWARD;

EID: 26844435843     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2005.06.005     Document Type: Article

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