High levels of estradiol disrupt conditioned place preference learning, stimulus response learning and reference memory but have limited effects on working memory

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 126, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 115-126

  Galea, Liisa A M ^a   Wide, Jennifer K ^a   Paine, Tracie A ^a   Holmes, Melissa M ^a   Ormerod, Brandi K ^a   Floresco, Stan B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Estradiol; Hippocampus; Learning; Prefrontal cortex; Radial arm maze; Striatum

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TRAINING; WORKING MEMORY;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0035969318     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(01)00255-8     Document Type: Article

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