The acute impact of ethanol on cognitive performance in rhesus macaques

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1783-1791

  Jedema, Hank P ^a,b   Carter, Michelle D ^c   Dugan, Brian P ^a,b   Gurnsey, Kate ^a,b   Olsen, Adam S ^a   Bradberry, Charles W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VA Pittsburgh Health Services   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

alcohol; anterior cingulate cortex; attention; cognition; cognitive flexibility; orbitofrontal cortex; stimulus discrimination; stimulus reversal

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; RHESUS MONKEY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALCOHOL-INDUCED DISORDERS, NERVOUS SYSTEM; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; COGNITION DISORDERS; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ETHANOL; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MACACA MULATTA; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 79960712629     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq244     Document Type: Article

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