Prenatal alcohol exposure and adolescent stress - unmasking persistent attentional deficits in rats

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3078-3095

  Comeau, Wendy L ^a   Winstanley, Catharine A ^a   Weinberg, Joanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognition; Executive function; Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder; Five choice serial reaction time task

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; ALCOHOL; DEXAMPHETAMINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULTHOOD; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHRONIC STRESS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL ALCOHOL EXPOSURE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; RESPONSE TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STRESS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ANIMAL; ATTENTION; BLOOD; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; MENTAL STRESS; PREGNANCY; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL LEARNING;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CORTICOSTERONE; DEXTROAMPHETAMINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; ETHANOL; FEMALE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL LEARNING; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84908247179     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12671     Document Type: Article

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