Improved cognitive flexibility in serotonin transporter knockout rats is unchanged following chronic cocaine self-administration

Addiction Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 434-440

  Nonkes, Lourens J P ^a   Maes, Joseph H R ^a   Homberg, Judith R ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cocaine; cognitive flexibility; orbitofrontal cortex; rat; reversal learning; serotonin

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COCAINE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; COGNITION; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; MALE; RATS; RATS, TRANSGENIC; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSAL LEARNING; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 84876134611     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: 13691600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-1600.2011.00351.x     Document Type: Article

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