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SUBMITTER: Cassaday HJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6947809 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) 20191017 1
Activation of 5-hydroxytyptamine<sub>6</sub> (5-HT<sub>6</sub>) receptors stimulates attentional switching and 5-HT<sub>6</sub> receptor antagonists are putative drugs for psychosis. Latent inhibition (LI) provides a pre-clinical model of attentional switching and 'antipsychotic-like' action and is known to be modulated by 5-hydroxytyptamine. In the present study, LI was shown in a fear conditioning procedure that measured suppression of drinking after conditioning with footshock. In two experim ...[more]