Functional dissociation between dorsal and ventral regions of the medial prefrontal cortex rats

Psychobiology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 248-260

  Gisquet Verrier, Pascale ^a,c   Winocur, Gordon ^b   Delatour, Benoît ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0033940111     PISSN: 08896313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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