Opiate Antagonists Improve Spatial Memory
- 2 September 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 221 (4614), 975-976
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.6879198
Abstract
Rats trained on an eight-arm radial maze were challenged by placing the maze in new spatial environments. Administration of opiate antagonists, either naloxone or diprenorphine, after exposure to the new environments significantly improved subsequent performance. The effect of naloxone on spatial memory was attenuated when drug administration occurred 2 hours after maze exposure.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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