Recruitment of hippocampal neurons to encode behavioral events in the rat: Alterations in cognitive demand and cannabinoid exposure

Hippocampus

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1083-1094

  Goonawardena, Anushka V ^a,b   Robinson, Lianne ^b   Riedel, Gernot ^a,b   Hampson, Robert E ^a,b  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cannabinoids; Delayed nonmatch to sample; Electrophysiology; Ensemble; Hippocampus; Learning; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

2,3 DIHYDRO 5 METHYL 3 (MORPHOLINOMETHYL) 6 (1 NAPHTHOYL)PYRROLO[1,2,3 DE][1,4]BENZOXAZINE; CANNABINOID; CANNABINOID 1 RECEPTOR AGONIST; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WIN 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CELL ISOLATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG EXPOSURE; ELECTRODE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTERNATIONAL STANDARD UNIT; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CANNABINOIDS; CELL MOVEMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 77956862514     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20706     Document Type: Article

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