Neurochemical modulation of stress-induced cognitive inflexibility in a rat model of an attentional set-shifting task

Pharmacological Reports

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1479-1488

  Nikiforuk, Agnieszka ^a   Popik, Piotr ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHARMACOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cognition; Corticosteroids; Depression; Ketamine; Monoamines; Prefrontal cortex; Set shifting; Stress

Indexed keywords

3 [2 [2 (4 METHYL 1 PIPERIDINYL)ETHYL] 1 PYRROLIDINESULFONYL]PHENOL; 6 CHLORO 2,3,4,5 TETRAHYDRO 7,8 DIHYDROXY 1 PHENYL 1H 3 BENZAZEPINE; AMISULPRIDE; CORTICOSTEROID; DESIPRAMINE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; ESCITALOPRAM; METYRAPONE; MIFEPRISTONE; NOMIFENSINE; NORADRENALIN; PRAZOSIN; SEROTONIN 7 RECEPTOR;

ATTENTIONAL SET SHIFTING TASK; BRAIN REGION; CHRONIC STRESS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE INFLEXIBILITY; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL TASK; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; COGNITION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84894201167     PISSN: 22995684     EISSN: 22995684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1734-1140(13)71508-1     Document Type: Article

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