Chemogenetic Activation of Midbrain Dopamine Neurons Affects Attention, but not Impulsivity, in the Five-Choice Serial Reaction Time Task in Rats

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1315-1325

  Boekhoudt, Linde ^a   Voets, Elisa S ^a   Flores Dourojeanni, Jacques P ^a,b   Luijendijk, Mieneke Cm ^a   Vanderschuren, Louk Jmj ^b   Adan, Roger Ah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOZAPINE N OXIDE; DESIGNER RECEPTOR EXCLUSIVELY ACTIVATED BY DESIGNER DRUG; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DESIGNER DRUG;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CELL ACTIVATION; CHEMOGENETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FIVE CHOICE SERIAL REACTION TIME TASK; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMPULSIVENESS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPONSE TIME; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA PARS COMPACTA; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DRUG EFFECTS; LONG EVANS RAT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TRANSGENIC RAT;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DESIGNER DRUGS; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, TRANSGENIC; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84995470066     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2016.235     Document Type: Article

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