Assessment of age-associated cognitive deficits in rats: A tricky business

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 753-759

  Van der Staay, F Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Animal model; Cognition; Cross sectional study; Learning; Longitudinal study; Memory; Morris water escape task; Rat

Indexed keywords

AGING; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; HOUSING; LIFESPAN; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING; REVIEW; RODENT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0036859667     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-7634(02)00062-3     Document Type: Article

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