Early amygdala damage disrupts performance on medial prefrontal cortex-related tasks but spares spatial learning and memory in the rat

Neuroscience

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 581-590

  Diergaarde, L ^a,b   Gerrits, M A F M ^a   Brouwers, J P W ^a   Van Ree, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

amygdala; neonatal lesion; neurodevelopmental disorders; rat

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; CUES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSAL LEARNING; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 10044247059     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2004.09.022     Document Type: Article

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