Amphetamine exposure selectively enhances hippocampus-dependent spatial learning and attenuates amygdala-dependent cue learning

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1440-1452

  Ito, Rutsuko ^a   Canseliet, Melissa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Addiction; Conditioned place preference; Dopamine; Learning and memory systems; Nucleus accumbens; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; LIMBIC CORTEX; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LOCOMOTION; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIZATION;

AMPHETAMINE; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77952426118     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2010.14     Document Type: Article

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