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Disturbed social behavior and motivation in rats selectively bred for deficient sensorimotor gating.
Schizophrenia research - 1 Dec 2007
Dieckmann Marco, Freudenberg Florian, Klein Steffen, Koch Michael, Schwabe Kerstin
Abstract excerpt
Deficient prepulse inhibition (PPI) of startle reflects disturbed sensorimotor gating found in certain neuropsychiatric disorders. We here tested whether rats selectively bred for deficient PPI are deteriorated in behavioral paradigms used to model negative symptoms of schizophrenia. Rats with low PPI preferred standard rat-chow when having the choice between lever-pressing for reward-pellets or freely available...
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