Neurotoxic lesions of the medial prefrontal cortex or medial striatum impair multiple-location place learning in the water task: Evidence for neural structures with complementary roles in behavioural flexibility

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 187, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 419-427

  McDonald, Robert J ^a   King, Amy L ^a   Foong, Natalie ^a   Rizos, Zoe ^a   Hong, Nancy S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dorso medial striatum; Flexibility; Hippocampus; Learning; Medial prefrontal cortex; Memory; One trial place learning; Water maze

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MEDIAL STRIATUM; MENTAL TASK; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURIES; CORPUS STRIATUM; LEARNING DISORDERS; MAZE LEARNING; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEUROTOXINS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; QUINOLINIC ACID; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; REVERSAL LEARNING; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 43449091243     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-008-1314-z     Document Type: Article

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