Persistent deficits in hippocampal synaptic plasticity accompany losses of hippocampus-dependent memory in a rodent model of psychosis
Irreversible N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) antagonism is known to provoke symptoms of psychosis and schizophrenia in healthy humans. NMDAR hypofunction is believed to play a central role in the pathophysiology of both disorders and in an animal model of psychosis, that is based on irreversi...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2013-03-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnint.2013.00012/full |