Cognitive Inflexibility After Prefrontal Serotonin Depletion
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- 7 May 2004
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 304 (5672) , 878-880
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1094987
Abstract
Serotonergic dysregulation within the prefrontal cortex (PFC) is implicated in many neuropsychiatric disorders, but the precise role of serotonin within the PFC is poorly understood. Using a serial discrimination reversal paradigm, we showed that upon reversal, selective serotonin depletion of the marmoset PFC produced perseverative responding to the previously rewarded stimulus without any significant effects on either retention of a discrimination learned preoperatively or acquisition of a novel discrimination postoperatively. These results highlight the importance of prefrontal serotonin in behavioral flexibility and are highly relevant to obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, and the cognitive sequelae of drug abuse in which perseveration is prominent.Keywords
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