Lesions of the dorsal noradrenergic bundle impair attentional set-shifting in the rat

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3719-3724

  Tait, David S ^a   Brown, Verity J ^a   Farovik, Anja ^a   Theobald, David E ^b   Dalley, Jeffrey W ^b   Robbins, Trevor W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

6 OHDA; Attentional set shifting; Noradrenaline; Prefrontal cortex; Rat

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; DOPAMINE; NORADRENALIN; OXIDOPAMINE; SEROTONIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DAMAGE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DORSAL NORADRENERGIC BUNDLE; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURIES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; MEDIAL FOREBRAIN BUNDLE; NOREPINEPHRINE; OXIDOPAMINE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); STIMULATION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 34347401661     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05612.x     Document Type: Article

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