LEARNING IMPULSE CONTROL IN A NOVEL ANIMAL MODEL: SYNAPTIC, CELLULAR, AND PHARMACOLOGICAL SUBSTRATES

Impulse control, an executive process that restrains inappropriate actions, is impaired in numerous psychiatric conditions. This thesis reports three experiments that utilized a novel animal model of impulse control, the response inhibition (RI) task, to examine the substrates that underlie learning...

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Main Author: HAYTON, SCOTT JOSEPH
Other Authors: Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Theses (Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.))
Language:en
en
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1974/6600