Depression-like deficits in rats improved by subchronic modafinil

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 204, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 627-639

  Regenthal, Ralf ^a   Koch, Holger ^a   Köhler, Christian ^a   Preiss, Rainer ^a   Krügel, Ute ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic startle; Attention; Body weight; Depression; Forced swim test; Modafinil; PPI; Restraint stress; Sensorimotor gating; Social novelty discrimination

Indexed keywords

MODAFINIL; PLACEBO;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPRESSION; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STARTLE REFLEX; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BENZHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SENSORY GATING; STARTLE REACTION; SWIMMING;

EID: 67349273597     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-009-1493-8     Document Type: Article

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