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Mechanisms Underlying Executive Function Deficits, Sagar Jayawantrao Desai
Mechanisms Underlying Executive Function Deficits, Sagar Jayawantrao Desai
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In our daily life, we come across situations where we meet unanticipated challenges, we must take certain decisions, pay attention, be flexible and inhibit impulsive actions to achieve goal directed behaviour. During these processes, we unknowingly use sets of interdependent cognitive processes collectively called ‘executive function’. Executive function is mainly regulated by the frontal lobe. Impaired executive function is associated with disorders such as schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease, autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
In this thesis, we investigated neurotransmitters and interactions among them regulating executive function. Further, we investigated mechanisms underlying those interactions mediating executive function in rats using …