Learning-induced alterations in prefrontal cortical dendritic morphology

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 214, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 91-101

  Comeau, Wendy L ^a   McDonald, Robert J ^a   Kolb, Bryan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Learning; Medial prefrontal cortex; Neuroplasticity; Orbitofrontal cortex; Rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; INSULA; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; DENDRITE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LONG EVANS RAT; NERVE TRACT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; DENDRITES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77955056038     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.04.033     Document Type: Article

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