D-cycloserine facilitates socially reinforced learning in an animal model relevant to autism spectrum disorders

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 298-304

  Modi, Meera E ^a   Young, Larry J ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; glutamate; NMDA receptor; prairie vole; social cognition; social impairment

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSERINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; FEMALE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRAIRIE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOLE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CYCLOSERINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEOSTRIATUM; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79960238536     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.01.026     Document Type: Article

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