Double dissociation of the effects of medial and orbital prefrontal cortical lesions on attentional and affective shifts in mice

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 44, 2008, Pages 11124-11130

  Bissonette, Gregory B ^a   Martins, Gabriela J ^a   Franz, Theresa M ^a   Harper, Elizabeth S ^a   Schoenbaum, Geoffrey ^a   Powell, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Cognitive flexibility; Executive function; Reversal learning; Set shifting; Wisconsin card sorting test

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; MARMOSET; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST; ANIMAL; ATTENTION; C57BL MOUSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STANDARD;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 56149119115     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2820-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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