Persistent cocaine-induced reversal learning deficits are associated with altered limbic cortico-striatal local field potential synchronization

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 44, 2013, Pages 17469-17482

  McCracken, Clinton B ^a,b   Grace, Anthony A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTINENCE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HABITUATION; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ORBITAL CORTEX; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; COCAINE; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSAL LEARNING; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 84886658246     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1440-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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