Sex diffences in the effects of frontal cortex injury: Role of differential hormonal experience in early development

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 141-153

  Forgie, Margaret L ^a   Kolb, Bryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OIL; TESTOSTERONE;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GONADECTOMY; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; DENDRITE; DRUG EFFECT; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FRONTAL LOBE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE REGENERATION; NEWBORN; ORIENTATION; RECALL; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN MAPPING; DENDRITES; ESCAPE REACTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; RATS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0031594250     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.112.1.141     Document Type: Article

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