Thalamic Amnesia reconsidered: Excitotoxic lesions of the intralaminar nuclei, but not the mediodorsal nucleus, disrupt placed delayed matching-to- sample performance in rats (Rattus norvegicus)

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 54-67

  Burk, Joshua A ^b   Mair, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS INTRALAMINAR NUCLEUS; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN MAPPING; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FRONTAL LOBE; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; REACTION TIME; REVERSAL LEARNING; SERIAL LEARNING; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 0031931467     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.112.1.54     Document Type: Article

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