A pattern of perseveration in cocaine addiction may reveal neurocognitive processes implicit in the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1660-1669

  Woicik, Patricia A ^a   Urban, Catherine ^b   Alia Klein, Nelly ^a   Henry, Ashley ^c   Maloney, Thomas ^a   Telang, Frank ^a   Wang, Gene Jack ^a   Volkow, Nora D ^d   Goldstein, Rita Z ^a  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Drug addiction; Memory; Perseveration; Prefrontal cortex; Task switching

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOTIVATION; PERSEVERATION; RECALL; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; URINALYSIS; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST;

ADULT; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERSONALITY TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 79956134398     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.02.037     Document Type: Article

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