Differential effects of intra-accumbens and systemic amphetamine on latent inhibition using an on-baseline, within-subject conditioned suppression paradigm

1993 ◽  
Vol 110 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. S. Killcross ◽  
T. W. Robbins
1984 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
pp. 549-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Tsaltas ◽  
G. C. Preston ◽  
J. N. P. Rawlins ◽  
G. Winocur ◽  
J. A. Gray

1993 ◽  
Vol 7 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 63-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen J. Cassaday ◽  
Helen Hodges ◽  
Jeffrey A. Gray

When animals are exposed to a stimulus that has no consequences they are subsequently impaired in learning that this stimulus predicts an important event, such as footshock. This retarding effect of stimulus pre-exposure is called latent inhibition (LI) and is reliably disrupted by amphetamine, antipsychotics having an opposite effect. The present experiments investigated whether agents which affect serotonergic transmission also attenuate LI, using a conditioned suppression of drinking procedure. The results showed that the 5-HT2 antagonist ritanserin (2.0 mg/kg), and the 5-HT1b agonist RU 24969 (0.5 and 10.0 mg/kg) attenuated LI by increasing learning in pre-exposed animals, whilst the effects of the 5-HT1a agonist 8-OH-DPAT (0.38 mg/kg), though in a similar direction, were not significant. These experiments provide partial support for the involvement of serotonin in LI. Since amphetamine-induced attenuation of LI has been proposed as a model for the attentional deficits found in acute schizophrenia, these results are discussed in terms of the possible involvement of reduced serotonergic function in schizophrenic attentional disorder.


1980 ◽  
Vol 94 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul R. Solomon ◽  
Gwen L. Nichols ◽  
Joseph M. Kiernan ◽  
Russell S. Kamer ◽  
Lawrence J. Kaplan

2000 ◽  
Vol 117 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 53-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Vinicius Salgado ◽  
Marc Vidal ◽  
Philippe Oberling ◽  
Frederico Guilherme Graeff ◽  
Jean Marie Danion ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-147
Author(s):  
Helen Joan Cassaday ◽  
Karen Elizabeth Thur

Activation of 5-hydroxytyptamine6 (5-HT6) receptors stimulates attentional switching and 5-HT6 receptor antagonists are putative drugs for psychosis. Latent inhibition (LI) provides a pre-clinical model of attentional switching and ‘antipsychotic-like’ action and is known to be modulated by 5-hydroxytyptamine. In the present study, LI was shown in a fear conditioning procedure that measured suppression of drinking after conditioning with footshock. In two experiments (each n = 48) it was shown that pre-exposure to both light- and noise-conditioned stimuli reduced conditioned suppression relative to the corresponding non-pre-exposed control. However, counter to prediction, LI was intact after treatment with the 5-HT6 agonist EMD386088 (5 mg/kg).


2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise McCartan ◽  
Robert Bell ◽  
Jonathan F. Green ◽  
Clarke Campbell ◽  
Karen Trimble ◽  
...  

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