Voluntary Physical Exercise Alters Attentional Orienting and Social Behavior in a Rat Model of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 599-606

  Hopkins, Michael E ^a   Sharma, Mita ^a   Evans, Gretchen C ^a   Bucci, David J ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

ADHD; associative learning; SHR; social interaction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WISTAR KYOTO RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FOOD; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 66349101716     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015632     Document Type: Article

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