Does pretraining spare the spatial deficit associated with anterior thalamic damage in rats?

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 956-967

  Warburton, E C ^a,b   Morgan, A ^a   Baird, A L ^a   Muir, J L ^a   Aggleton, J P ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PERFORMANCE; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; THALAMUS; TRAINING;

EID: 0033510435     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.113.5.956     Document Type: Article

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