Establishing a probabilistic reversal learning test in mice: Evidence for the processes mediating reward-stay and punishment-shift behaviour and for their modulation by serotonin

Neuropharmacology

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1012-1021

  Ineichen, Christian ^a   Sigrist, Hannes ^a   Spinelli, Simona ^a   Lesch, Klaus Peter ^b   Sautter, Eva ^c   Seifritz, Erich ^a   Pryce, Christopher R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c TSE Systems GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Depression; Escitalopram; Expectancy prediction; Mouse; Probabilistic reversal learning; Punishment; Reward; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

ESCITALOPRAM; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; LEARNING; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOUSE; MUTANT; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILISTIC REVERSAL LEARNING TEST; PROBABILITY; PUNISHMENT; REWARD; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, SECOND-GENERATION; CITALOPRAM; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; LIGHT; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PUNISHMENT; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; REVERSAL LEARNING; REWARD; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS;

EID: 84865249809     PISSN: 00283908     EISSN: 18737064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2012.07.025     Document Type: Article

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