Auditory-cued sensorimotor task reveals disengagement deficits in rats exposed to the autism-associated teratogen valproic acid

Neuroscience

Volumn 268, Issue , 2014, Pages 212-220

  Chomiak, T ^a   Hung, J ^a   Cihal, A ^a   Dhaliwal, J ^a   Baghdadwala, M I ^a   Dzwonek, A ^a   Podgorny, P ^a   Hu, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Autism; Disengagement; Savant; Temporal lobe; Valproic acid

Indexed keywords

VALPROIC ACID; TERATOGENIC AGENT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CUED SENSORIMOTOR TASK; AUTISM; BRAIN CELL; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; EXPERIMENTAL BEHAVIORAL TEST; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NOVEL CONTEXT MISMATCH; NOVEL OBJECT RECOGNITION TEST; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL ASSOCIATION CORTEX; ANIMAL; ANTICIPATION; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DRUG EFFECTS; FRONTAL LOBE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LEARNING; NERVE CELL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOXICITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CUES; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; LEARNING; MALE; NEURONS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REWARD; TEMPORAL LOBE; TERATOGENS; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 84897519705     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.02.049     Document Type: Article

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