Recovery from early cortical damage in rats. VII. Comparison of the behavioural and anatomical effects of medial prefrontal lesions at different ages of neural maturation

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 79, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 1-13

  Kolb, Bryan ^a   Petrie, Bruce ^b   Cioe, Jan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c OKANAGAN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Development; Kennard effect; Prefrontal cortex; Recovery of function

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030245562     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-4328(95)00254-5     Document Type: Article

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