Impairment of Long-Term Associative Memory in Aging Snails (Lymnaea stagnalis)

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1400-1414

  Hermann, Petra M ^a   Lee, Arden ^b   Hulliger, Sara ^b   Minvielle, Michelle ^a   Ma, Bonita ^b   Wildering, Willem C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

intermediate term memory; long term memory; Lymnaea stagnalis; memory retention; neuronal excitability

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APPETITE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CELL DEATH; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING DISORDER; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; SNAIL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEREBELLUM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEURONS; SNAILS; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 38149040198     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.121.6.1400     Document Type: Article

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