Dopaminergic modulation of the orbitofrontal cortex affects attention, motivation and impulsive responding in rats performing the five-choice serial reaction time task

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 210, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 263-272

  Winstanley, Catharine A ^a   Zeeb, Fiona D ^a   Bedard, Amanda ^a   Fu, Kent ^a   Lai, Barbara ^a   Steele, Christina ^a   Wong, Adeline C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Baseline dependency; D1 receptor; D2 receptor; Dopamine; Impulsivity; Orbitofrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

6 CHLORO 2,3,4,5 TETRAHYDRO 7,8 DIHYDROXY 1 PHENYL 1H 3 BENZAZEPINE; 8 CHLORO 2,3,4,5 TETRAHYDRO 3 METHYL 5 PHENYL 1H 3 BENZAZEPIN 7 OL HYDROGEN MALEATE; QUINPIROLE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; IMPULSIVENESS; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPONSE TIME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE AGENTS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 77952323187     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.02.044     Document Type: Article

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