Markers of serotonergic function in the orbitofrontal cortex and dorsal raphé nucleus predict individual variation in spatial-discrimination serial reversal learning

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1619-1630

  Barlow, Rebecca L ^a   Alsiö, Johan ^a,b   Jupp, Bianca ^a,c   Rabinovich, Rebecca ^a   Shrestha, Saurav ^d   Roberts, Angela C ^a,e   Robbins, Trevor W ^a   Dalley, Jeffrey W ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING); CITALOPRAM; MESSENGER RNA; PIPERAZINE DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN BINDING; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TPH2 PROTEIN, RAT; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE; VANOXERINE;

ANIMAL; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MALE; METABOLISM; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMALS; CITALOPRAM; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MONOAMINE OXIDASE; PIPERAZINES; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REVERSAL LEARNING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

EID: 84939944773     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2014.335     Document Type: Article

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