Medial Prefrontal Cortex Lesions and Spatial Delayed Alternation in the Developing Rat: Recovery or Sparing?

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 106, Issue 6, 1992, Pages 924-932

  Freeman Jr , John H ^a   Stanton, Mark E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GELFOAM; PROXYMETACAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WEANING;

AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; ORIENTATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROBLEM SOLVING; RATS;

EID: 0027050666     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.106.6.924     Document Type: Article

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