Encoding changes in orbitofrontal cortex in reversal-impaired aged rats

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1509-1517

  Schoenbaum, Geoffrey ^a   Setlow, Barry ^b   Saddoris, Michael P ^c   Gallagher, Michela ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; EVALUATION; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; ORBITAL CORTEX; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSAL REACTION; TRAINING; ACTION POTENTIAL; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FRONTAL LOBE; LONG EVANS RAT; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGING; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FRONTAL LOBE; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 33645971368     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01052.2005     Document Type: Article

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