Inhibition of the norepinephrine transporter improves behavioral flexibility in rats and monkeys

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 202, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 505-519

  Seu, Emanuele ^a   Lang, Andrew ^a   Rivera, Ronald J ^a   Jentsch, J David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ADHD; Catecholamine; Cognition; Dopamine; Frontal cortex; Norepinephrine; Reversal learning

Indexed keywords

ATOMOXETINE; DESIPRAMINE; METHYLPHENIDATE; NORADRENALIN TRANSPORTER; VANOXERINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MONKEY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; RAT;

ADRENERGIC UPTAKE INHIBITORS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DESIPRAMINE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; MALE; MEMORY; METHYLPHENIDATE; NOREPINEPHRINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PIPERAZINES; PROPYLAMINES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REVERSAL LEARNING; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 59449097402     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-008-1250-4     Document Type: Article

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