Vasopressin in the septum: not important versus causally involved in learning and memory - two faces of the same coin?

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 170, Issue , 2008, Pages 389-395

  Engelmann, Mario ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

hippocampus; learning; memory; septum; vasopressin

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

CONDITIONING; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RELEASE; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; AXONS; BRAIN; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE FIBERS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RODENTIA; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SPACE PERCEPTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VASOPRESSINS;

EID: 47549111313     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(08)00432-9     Document Type: Review

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