The hippocampus makes a significant contribution to experience-dependent neocortical plasticity

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 214, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 121-124

  Sutherland, Rob ^a   Gibb, Robbin ^a   Kolb, Bryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Cortical plasticity; Dendritic morphology; Environmental enrichment; Hippocampus; Long term memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CELL DENSITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; DENDRITIC SPINE; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; EXPERIENCE; GOLGI STAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; LONG EVANS RAT; NEOCORTEX; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 77955056283     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.05.051     Document Type: Article

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