Conditional discrimination learning in rats with global ischaemic brain damage

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 111, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 213-221

  Modo, Michel ^a   Sowinski, Peter ^a   Hodges, Helen ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conditional discrimination; Global ischaemia; Hippocampus; Learning; Rat; Y maze

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN REGION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL SURVIVAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ESCAPE REACTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; ORIENTATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0034660376     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(00)00160-1     Document Type: Article

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