Effects of lesions of thalamic intralaminar and midline nuclei and internal medullary lamina on spatial memory and object discrimination

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1339-1352

  Savage, Lisa M ^a,c   Castillo, Rosemary ^b   Langlais, Philip J ^a,b  

^a VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; STARTLE REFLEX; THALAMUS INTRALAMINAR NUCLEUS; THALAMUS MEDIALIS CENTRALIS NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ESCAPE REACTION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 0032434382     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.112.6.1339     Document Type: Article

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