Delay-and dose-dependent effects of Δ 9-tetrahydrocannabinol administration on spatial and object working memory tasks in adolescent rhesus monkeys

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1357-1366

  Verrico, Christopher D ^a   Liu, Shijing ^a   Bitler, Elizabeth J ^a   Gu, Hong ^b   Sampson, Allan R ^b   Bradberry, Charles W ^a   Lewis, David A ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

9 tetrahydrocannabinol; adolescence; cannabis; prefrontal cortex; rhesus monkey; working memory

Indexed keywords

DELTA9(11) TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL;

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SPATIAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; LINEAR MODELS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84859757707     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2011.321     Document Type: Article

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