Towards therapy to relieve memory impairment after anterior thalamic lesions: Improved spatial working memory after immediate and delayed postoperative enrichment

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3267-3276

  Loukavenko, Elena A ^a   Ottley, Mark C ^a   Moran, James P ^a   Wolff, Mathieu ^a   Dalrymple Alford, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Diencephalic amnesia; Enriched environments; Rats; Recovery of function; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURIES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; RATS; THALAMUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 36248968062     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05879.x     Document Type: Article

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