Serotonin, aging and cognitive functions of the hippocampus

Reviews in the Neurosciences

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 103-113

  Richter Levin, Gal ^a   Segal, Menahem ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Aging; Hippocampus; Learning; Memory; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYTRYPTOPHAN; ACETYLCHOLINE; SEROTONIN;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITABILITY; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; INNERVATION; INTERNEURON; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; SENILE DEMENTIA; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; COGNITION; HIPPOCAMPUS; SEROTONIN;

EID: 0030035152     PISSN: 03341763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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