Enhancement of Attentional Performance by Selective Stimulation of α4β2(*) nAChRs: Underlying Cholinergic Mechanisms

Impairments in attention are a major component of the cognitive symptoms of neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders. Using an operant sustained attention task (SAT), including a distractor condition (dSAT), we assessed the putative pro-attentional effects of the selective α4β2(*) nicotinic...

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Main Authors: Howe, William M, Ji, Jinzhao, Parikh, Vinay, Williams, Sarah, Mocaër, Elisabeth, Trocmé-Thibierge, Caryn, Sarter, Martin
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2010
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2855755/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20147893
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npp.2010.9
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