Post-training depletions of basolateral amygdala serotonin fail to disrupt discrimination, retention, or reversal learning

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue APR, 2015, Pages

  Jesus Ochoa, G ^a   Stolyarova, Alexandra ^a   Kaur, Amandeep ^a   Hart, Evan ^a   Bugarin, Amador ^a   Izquierdo, Alicia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

5,7 DHT; 5 HT; Amygdala; cognitive flexibility; Retention; Reward learning; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

5,7 DIHYDROXYTRYPTAMINE; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERFORMANCE; PUNISHMENT; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; TRAINING;

EID: 84928675888     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2015.00155     Document Type: Article

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