Chronic corticosterone exposure during adolescence reduces impulsive action but increases impulsive choice and sensitivity to yohimbine in male sprague-dawley rats

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1656-1670

  Torregrossa, Mary M ^a   Xie, Maylene ^a   Taylor, Jane R ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescence; delay discounting; impulsivity; lateral orbital frontal cortex; stress; yohimbine

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; YOHIMBINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FRONTAL CORTEX; IMPULSIVENESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REACTION TIME; STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CORTICOSTERONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; YOHIMBINE;

EID: 84861191185     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2012.11     Document Type: Article

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