Teaching old rats new tricks: Age-related impairments in olfactory reversal learning

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 555-564

  Schoenbaum, Geoffrey ^a   Nugent, Summer ^a   Saddoris, Michael P ^a   Gallagher, Michela ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Discrimination; Olfactory; Orbitofrontal; Rats; Reversal

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGING; ANIMALS; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MAZE LEARNING; ODORS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REVERSAL LEARNING; SMELL; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0036247290     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-4580(01)00343-8     Document Type: Article

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