Hippocampal, retrosplenial, and prefrontal hypoactivity in a model of diencephalic amnesia: Evidence towards an interdependent subcortical-cortical memory network

Hippocampus

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1090-1102

  Vann, Seralynne D ^a   Albasser, Mathieu M ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amygdala; c Fos; Mammillary bodies; Mammillothalamic tract; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

AMNESIA; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS;

AMNESIA; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; THALAMUS;

EID: 70350247797     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20574     Document Type: Article

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