Medial prefrontal lesion deficits involving or sparing the prelimbic area in the rat

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 373-380

  Fritts, Mary E ^a   Asbury, E Trey ^a   Horton, James E ^b   Isaac, Walter L ^b  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b E Tennessee Stt Univ Coll Med   (United States)

Author keywords

Avoidance learning; Medial prefrontal cortex; Prelimbic area; Spatial learning; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0032100187     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(98)00096-1     Document Type: Article

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