Cognitive effects of psychotomimetic drugs in rats discriminating number cues.
Psychopharmacology November 1, 2009 C B Willmore, D M Krall, F M Spears et al.
Deficits in memory and attention are broadly acknowledged during psychosis; however, experiments on modeled psychosis often test working memory without systematic manipulation of attentional demands. The major research goal was discovering which neurobehavioral processes, attention, or memory contributed more to drug-provoked performance deficits. Rats were trained to perform operant ratio...