Normalization of spatial learning despite brain damage in rats receiving ketamine after seizure-induction: Evidence for the neuromatrix

Psychological Reports

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 102-110

  Vaillancourt, L N ^b   Persinger, M A ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; KETAMINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; PATHOLOGY; RAT; SEIZURE; TIME; WISTAR RAT;

ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; ATROPHY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; ELECTROMAGNETICS; KETAMINE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEIZURES; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0035257943     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2001.88.1.102     Document Type: Article

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