Samantha M Renaud

• Master of Arts
• Kent State University

The effects of chronic adolescent fluoxetine (FLX, Prozac®) exposure on adult cognition are largely unknown. We used a serial multiple choice (SMC) task to characterize the effects of adolescent FLX exposure on rat serial pattern learning in adulthood. Male rats were exposed to either 1.0, 2.0, or 4.0 mg/kg/day FLX for five consecutive days each we...

This study investigated whether adolescent nicotine exposure in one generation of rats would impair the cognitive capacity of a subsequent generation. Male and female rats in the parental F0 generation were given twice-daily i.p. injections of either 1.0 mg/kg nicotine or an equivalent volume of saline for 35 days during adolescence on postnatal da...

The long-term effects of adolescent exposure to methylphenidate (MPD) on adult cognitive capacity are largely unknown. We utilized a serial multiple choice (SMC) task, which is a sequential learning paradigm for studying complex learning, to observe the effects of methylphenidate exposure during adolescence on later serial pattern acquisition durin...

Nicotine exposure in adolescent rats has been shown to cause learning impairments that persist into adulthood long after nicotine exposure has ended. This study was designed to assess the extent to which the effects of adolescent nicotine exposure on learning in adulthood can be accounted for by adolescent injection stress experienced concurrently...