Kindling of the dorsal and the ventral hippocampus: Effects on learning performance in rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1265-1271

  Becker, Axel ^a   Letzel, Kaith ^a   Letzel, Ulrike ^a   Grecksch, Gisela ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active avoidance; Brightness discrimination; Epilepsy; Kindling; Learning; Rats; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPILEPTOGENESIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINDLING; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030716478     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(97)00303-X     Document Type: Article

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