Investigation into the use of phencyclidine in modelling the symptoms of schizophrenia - neurochemical and behavioural studies in the rat

Schizophrenia is a chronic, severely debilitating psychiatric disorder that affects up to 1 % of the population worldwide. The N-methyl-D-aspartic acid (NMDA) receptor antagonist phencyclidine (PCP) can produce a syndrome in normal healthy humans that closely resembles the positive, negative and cog...

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Main Author: McKibben, Claire
Published: Queen's University Belfast 2015
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.680433