Learning enhances adult neurogenesis in the hippocampal formation

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 260-265

  Gould, Elizabeth ^a   Beylin, Anna ^a   Tanapat, Patima ^a   Reeves, Alison ^a   Shors, Tracey J ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL FATE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BLINKING; CELL DIVISION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; DENTATE GYRUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEURONS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0033363319     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/6365     Document Type: Article

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