Characterizing operant hyperactivity in the Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat

Behavioral and Brain Functions

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Hill, Jade C ^a   Herbst, Katrina ^a   Sanabria, Federico ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adhd; Bout; Hyperactivity; Operant; Spontaneously hypertensive rat; Variable interval

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; WISTAR KYOTO RAT; WISTAR RAT; AGING; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; HYPERKINESIA; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

AGING; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; HYPERKINESIS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE;

EID: 84856091759     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17449081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-9081-8-5     Document Type: Article

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