Neurobiological and endocrine correlates of individual differences in spatial learning ability

Learning and Memory

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 244-252

  Sandi, Carmen ^a,b   Cordero, M Isabel ^a,b   Merino, José J ^a   Kruyt, Nyika D ^a   Regan, Ciaran M ^c   Murphy, Keith J ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; WATER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENTATE GYRUS; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIALYLATION; SYNAPSE; TRAINING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; DENTATE GYRUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULE L1; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SIALIC ACIDS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SYNAPSES; TIME FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 2542616089     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.73904     Document Type: Article

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