Memory for reward location is enhanced even though acetylcholine efflux within the amygdala is impaired in rats with damage to the diencephalon produced by thiamine deficiency

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 554-560

  Savage, Lisa M ^a   Guarino, Sabrina ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Amygdala; Delayed alternation; Memory; Rat

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; THIAMINE;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; AMNESIA; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; EPISODIC MEMORY; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REWARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AMNESIA; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANTIMETABOLITES; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; DIENCEPHALON; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PYRITHIAMINE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REWARD; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY;

EID: 78149416732     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2010.09.008     Document Type: Article

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