Dissociable memory effects after medial thalamus lesions in the rat

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 973-985

  Mitchell, Anna S ^a,b   Dalrymple Alford, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Diencephalon; Memory systems; Reward; Spatial; Temporal order

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECOGNITION; REWARD; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; RATS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REWARD; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS; THALAMUS;

EID: 24144467463     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.04199.x     Document Type: Article

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