Enhancing effects of lithium on memory are not by-products of learning or attentional deficits

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 241-245

  Tsaltas, Eleftheria ^a   Kyriazi, Theodora ^a   Poulopoulou, Cornelia ^a   Kontis, Dimitrios ^a,b   Maillis, Antonios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b Psychiatric Hospital of Attika Dafni   (Greece)

Author keywords

Conditioned emotional response; Latent inhibition; Lithium; Memory

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM CHLORIDE; PANREAC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHRONIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; EMOTION; LATENT INHIBITION; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ANTIMANIC AGENTS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EMOTIONS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LITHIUM CHLORIDE; MALE; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME;

EID: 34248225887     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.03.017     Document Type: Article

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