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Effect of piracetam on learned helplessness

Cavoy, Albert, Ennaceur, Abdelkader and Delacour, J (1988) Effect of piracetam on learned helplessness. Physiology & Behavior, 42 (6). pp. 545-549. ISSN 0031-9384

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Abstract

In rats, the effects of Piracetam (P), the prototype of nootropic drugs, were studied on a very widely used model of behavioral disturbance: the learned helplessness (LH) phenomenon. In this model, exposure to uncontrollable and unsignalled shocks impairs subsequent escape-avoidance learning. In a first experiment, this deficit was abolished by 200 mg/kg of P, and to a lesser extent, by a 100 mg/kg dose, administered before the training session. In non-stressed animals, no dose of P was able to have a facilitatory effect on escape-avoidance. In a second experiment, the administration of P, not before the training session as in Experiment I, but before the stress, had no effect on the LH phenomenon regardless of the dose.

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Item ID: 8100
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-9384(88)90155-2
ISSN: 0031-9384
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/8100
Official URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0...

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ORCID for Abdelkader Ennaceur: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6398-4383

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