Chronic administration of a Ginkgo biloba leaf extract facilitates acquisition but not performance of a working memory task

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 202, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 173-185

  Satvat, Elham ^a   Mallet, Paul E ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ginkgo biloba; Learning and memory; Maze; Rat; Spatial learning; Spatial memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

GINKGO BILOBA EXTRACT; GINKGOSELECT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; GINKGO BILOBA; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 59449109172     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-008-1223-7     Document Type: Article

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