Genetic neuroscience of mammalian learning and memory

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1432, 2003, Pages 787-795

  Tonegawa, Susumu ^a   Nakazawa, Kazu ^a   Wilson, Matthew A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Memory; N methyl D aspartate receptors

Indexed keywords

LEARNING; MEMORY; NEUROLOGY;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0038222581     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1243     Document Type: Review

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