Context dependent effects of ventral tegmental area inactivation on spatial working memory

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 203, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 316-320

  Martig, Adria K ^a   Jones, Graham L ^a   Smith, Kelsey E ^a   Mizumori, Sheri J Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Hippocampus; Ventral tegmental area; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; HIPPOCAMPUS; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; WORKING MEMORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BACLOFEN; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 67649672108     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.05.008     Document Type: Article

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