Corticotropin-releasing factor in the norepinephrine nucleus, locus coeruleus, facilitates behavioral flexibility

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 520-530

  Snyder, Kevin ^a   Wang, Wei Wen ^b   Han, Rebecca ^a   McFadden, Kile ^c   Valentino, Rita J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

behavioral flexibility; norepinephrine; prefrontal cortex; reversal learning; set shifting; stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; NORADRENALIN; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTIONAL SET SHIFTING; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG MEGADOSE; LEARNING; LOCUS CERULEUS; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NOREPINEPHRINE NUCLEUS; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAPHE NUCLEUS; RAT;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSAL LEARNING;

EID: 84856030643     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2011.218     Document Type: Article

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