Juvenile peer play experience and the development of the orbitofrontal and medial prefrontal cortices

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 207, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 7-13

  Bell, Heather C ^a   Pellis, Sergio M ^a   Kolb, Bryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Golgi; Medial prefrontal cortex; Orbitofrontal cortex; Play; Play deprivation; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; JUVENILE ANIMAL; LONG EVANS RAT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PEER GROUP; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PLAY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REARING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DENDRITES; DENDRITIC SPINES; FEMALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PEER GROUP; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SILVER STAINING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 70649099113     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.09.029     Document Type: Article

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