Impaired allocentric spatial working memory and intact retrograde memory after thalamic damage caused by thiamine deficiency in rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 42-50

  Mumby, Dave G ^a   Cameli, Luisa ^b   Glenn, Melissa J ^b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; RAT; RECOGNITION; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0032991973     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.113.1.42     Document Type: Article

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