Time course of choice reaction time deficits in the HdhQ92 knock-in mouse model of Huntington's disease in the operant Serial Implicit Learning Task (SILT)

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 317-324

  Trueman, Rebecca C ^a   Brooks, Simon P ^a   Jones, Lesley ^b   Dunnett, Stephen B ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

9 Hole box; HdhQ92 mouse model; Huntington's disease; Implicit learning; Motor learning; Operant tests

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; EVOLUTION; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SERIAL IMPLICIT LEARNING TASK; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBABILITY LEARNING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SERIAL LEARNING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 41149153221     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.01.020     Document Type: Article

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