Disconnection of the hippocampal-prefrontal cortical circuits impairs spatial working memory performance in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 329-336

  Wang, Gong Wu ^a,b   Cai, Jing Xia ^a,b  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Delayed spatial alternation task; Hippocampal prefrontal cortical circuit; Hippocampus; Muscimol; Prefrontal cortex; Spatial working memory; T maze

Indexed keywords

MUSCIMOL;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GABA AGONISTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MICROINJECTIONS; MUSCIMOL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33750983656     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2006.09.002     Document Type: Article

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