Transient disruption of attentional performance following escalating amphetamine administration in rats

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 175, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 436-442

  Kondrad, Robyn L ^a   Burk, Joshua A ^a  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphetamine; Attention; Dopamine; Nucleus accumbens; Rat; Withdrawal

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE DERIVATIVE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; RAT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

AMPHETAMINE; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BODY WEIGHT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 5444219937     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-004-1857-z     Document Type: Article

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