Assessment of sensorimotor neglect after occlusion of the middle cerebral artery in the rat

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1133-1145

  Ward, Nick M ^a   Sharkey, John ^b   Brown, Verity J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN PROTECTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DRUG EFFECT; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTENTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FORELIMB; MALE; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0030840134     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.111.5.1133     Document Type: Article

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