Cocaine self-administration improves performance in a highly demanding water maze task

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 195, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 19-25

  Del Olmo, N ^a   Higuera Matas, A ^a   Miguens M ^a   Garcia Lecumberri C ^a   Ambrosio, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cocaine self administration; LTP; Memory; Morris water maze; Spatial learning; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PERSEVERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COCAINE; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 35248823594     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-007-0873-1     Document Type: Article

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