Environmental complexity has different effects on the structure of neurons in the prefrontal cortex versus the parietal cortex or nucleus accumbens

Synapse

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 149-153

  Kolb, Bryan ^a   Gorny, Grazyna ^a   Söderpalm, Anna H V ^b   Robinson, Terry E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendritic morphology; Experience; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DENDRITIC CELL; FEMALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT;

ANIMALS; DENDRITES; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0037409821     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.10196     Document Type: Article

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