Kavli Affiliate: Nicholas Spitzer | Authors: Marta Pratelli, Arth Thaker, Huiquan Li, Swetha Godavarthi and Nicholas C. Spitzer | Summary: Decreased cognitive ability is a major consequence of exposure to drugs of abuse, but the underlying neuroplastic changes have been elusive. We show that both phencyclidine and methamphetamine cause a population of prelimbic pyramidal neurons […]
Continue.. Phencyclidine and methamphetamine cause cognitive deficits by changing pyramidal neuron transmitter identity in the prefrontal cortex