Serial reversal learning and acute tryptophan depletion

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 23-31

  van der Plasse, Geoffrey ^a,b   Feenstra, Matthijs G P ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ATD; Learning set; Perseveration; Serotonin; Spatial

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSAL LEARNING; SERIAL LEARNING; SEROTONIN; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 36048989940     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.07.017     Document Type: Article

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