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SUBMITTER: Bortz DM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6898642 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bortz D M DM Gazo K L KL Grace A A AA
Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 20190701 13
Cognitive flexibility deficits are one of the most pervasive symptoms across psychiatric disorders, making continued investigation of the circuitry underlying this function a top priority. Medial septum (MS) lesions lead to perseverative, inflexible-type behavior; however, a role for this region in cognitive flexibility circuitry has never been examined. We activated the MS (DREADDs) and measured performance in a T-maze spatial reversal learning task in male Sprague-Dawley rats. Systemic activat ...[more]