Title: Chronic methamphetamine administration produces cognitive deficits through augmentation of GABAergic synaptic transmission in the prefrontal cortex Authors: Monserrat Armenta-Resendiz, Ahlem Assali, Evgeny Tsvetkov, Christopher W. Cowan, and Antonieta Lavin Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC Correspondence: lavina@musc.edu Key Words: Methamphetamine, Prefrontal cortex, Inhibitory transmission, cognitive deficits . CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license available under a (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made The copyright holder for this preprint this version posted March 10, 2022. ; https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.28.482382 doi: bioRxiv preprint