Exposing rats to a predator impairs spatial working memory in the radial arm water maze

Hippocampus

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 542-552

  Diamond, David M ^a,b   Park, Collin R ^a,b   Heman, Karen L ^c   Rose, Gregory M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Learning, amnesia; LTP; Psychological stress

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MAZE TEST; MENTAL STRESS; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; SWIMMING; WORKING MEMORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CATS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PUNISHMENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0032737316     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1063(1999)9:5<542::AID-HIPO8>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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