A touch-screen based paired-associates learning (PAL) task for the rat may provide a translatable pharmacological model of human cognitive impairment

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 122, Issue , 2014, Pages 97-106

  Talpos, John C ^a   Aerts, Nancy ^a   Fellini, Laetitia ^a   Steckler, Thomas ^a  

^a JANSSEN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Amphetamine; Cognition; Hippocampus; NMDA antagonist; Scopolamine; Touch screen

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; BIPERIDEN; KETAMINE; LYSERGIDE; PHENCYCLIDINE; SCOPOLAMINE; SCOPOLAMINE BROMIDE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; PAIRED ASOCIATE LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DISEASE MODEL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOMIZATION; REACTION TIME; TOUCH; TOXICITY;

AMPHETAMINE; ANIMALS; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; KETAMINE; MALE; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PHENCYCLIDINE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; REACTION TIME; SCOPOLAMINE HYDROBROMIDE; TOUCH;

EID: 84898635969     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: 18735177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2014.03.014     Document Type: Article

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