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BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 119, Issue 2, Pages 420-428Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.119.2.420
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cognition; glutamate; prefrontal cortex; schizophrenia; Wisconsin Card Sort Task
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- NIMH NIH HHS [R21 MH65026] Funding Source: Medline
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The authors examined discrimination rule learning and extradimensional set-shifting ability in rats given systemic or intracranial injections of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist MK801. Pretraining systemic injections of MK801 impaired both the acquisition of the initial discrimination rule (Set 1) and the shift to the 2nd rule (Set 2). Pretraining intramedial prefrontal cortical (mPFC) administration of MK801 did not impair Set I acquisition. Intra-mPFC injection of MK801 was previously found to impair Set 2 acquisition. Impaired Set 2 performance was due to increased cognitive perseveration. The data suggest that discrimination learning in naive subjects requires NMDA receptors outside the mPFC, whereas NMDA receptors within the mPFC are selectively involved in the modification of previous knowledge and/or the inhibition of previously learned responses.
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