Prolonged rote learning produces delayed memory facilitation and metabolic changes in the hippocampus of the ageing human brain

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Roche, Richard A P ^a,b   Mullally, Sinéad L ^a   McNulty, Jonathan P ^c   Hayden, Judy ^a   Brennan, Paul ^d   Doherty, Colin P ^d   Fitzsimons, Mary ^d   McMackin, Deirdre ^e   Prendergast, Julie ^d   Sukumaran, Sunita ^d   Mangaoang, Maeve A ^e   Robertson, Ian H ^a   O'Mara, Shane M ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^e ST PATRICK S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DELAYED MEMORY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; METABOLIC DISORDER; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BEHAVIOR; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECALL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); QUESTIONNAIRES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 71549132220     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-10-136     Document Type: Article

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