Configural learning, spatial navigation, and amphetamine-induced activity spared with ibotenic acid but not quinolinic acid lesions of the dorsomedial thalamus in rats

Psychobiology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 99-109

  Tomie, J O Anne ^a   Whishaw, Ian Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; IBOTENIC ACID; QUINOLINIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS;

EID: 0029976559     PISSN: 08896313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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