Retrosplenial cortex lesions of area Rgb (but not of area Rga) impair spatial learning and memory in the rat

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 483-491

  Van Groen, Thomas ^a   Kadish, Inga ^a   Wyss, J Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Cingulate; Cingulate cortex; Hippocampus; Lesions; Limbic; Limbic system; Retrosplenial; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

IBOTENIC ACID; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETROSPLENIAL GRANULAR A CORTEX; RETROSPLENIAL GRANULAR B CORTEX; SPATIAL MEMORY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; ESCAPE REACTION; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 4143127592     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2004.03.016     Document Type: Article

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