Progressive Spatial Processing Deficits in a Mouse Model of the Fragile X Premutation

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1315-1324

  Hunsaker, Michael R ^a   Wenzel, H Jürgen ^b   Willemsen, Rob ^b,c   Berman, Robert F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

fragile X premutation; metric; spatial pattern separation; spatial processing; topological

Indexed keywords

FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CELL NUCLEUS INCLUSION BODY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FRAGILE X ASSOCIATED TREMOR ATAXIA SYNDROME; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING TEST; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DENTATE GYRUS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FRAGILE X MENTAL RETARDATION PROTEIN; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRANUCLEAR INCLUSION BODIES; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PARIETAL LOBE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 72249123025     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017616     Document Type: Article

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