Use it or lose it: Environmental enrichment as a means to promote successful cognitive aging

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Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages 1129-1141

  Frick, Karyn M ^a,b   Benoit, Jamie D ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive stimulation; Exercise; Hippocampus; Memory; Rodent

Indexed keywords

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; MEMORY; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; RAT; SHORT SURVEY; TREATMENT DURATION; ANIMAL; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

RODENTIA;

AGING; ANIMALS; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 77955906952     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1100/tsw.2010.111     Document Type: Short Survey

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