The Effects of Cocaine on Nonhuman Primate Brain Function Are Age Dependent

• Published in: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Vol. 844; no. 1; pp. 178 - 182
• Main Authors: PAULE, MERLE G., GILLAM, MICHAEL P., MORRIS, PAUL
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.05.1998

The effects of acute intravenous (i.v.) cocaine (COC) on several complex brain functions were studied in rhesus monkeys at 1.5, 3 and 10–11 years of age. Subjects performed several operant tasks (for food) that were used to model learning, short‐term memory, color and position discrimination, and mo...