Adolescent Cocaine Residually Impairs Working Memory and Enhances Fear Memory in Rats

Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 77-85

  Santucci, Anthony C ^a  

^a MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescence; cocaine; fear memory; reversal learning; spatial memory

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ABSTINENCE; ADOLESCENT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; LEARNING; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; COCAINE; FEAR; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 39749200100     PISSN: 10641297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1064-1297.16.1.77     Document Type: Article

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