Learning deficits in an odor reward-task induced by parafascicular thalamic lesions are ameliorated by pretraining d-cycloserine in the prelimbic cortex

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 238, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 289-292

  Villarejo Rodríguez, Irene ^a   Boadas Vaello, Pere ^a,b   Portero Tresserra, Marta ^a   Vale Martínez, Anna ^a   Martí Nicolovius, Margarita ^a   Guillazo Blanch, Gemma ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE NEUROCIÈNCIES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Glutamate; Intralaminar nuclei; NMDA receptors; Odor learning; Prefrontal cortex; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSERINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG SCREENING; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING DISORDER; LIMBIC CORTEX; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS PARAFASCICULAR NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CYCLOSERINE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTRALAMINAR THALAMIC NUCLEI; LEARNING; MEMORY; ODORS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; REWARD;

EID: 84869110644     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.10.041     Document Type: Article

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