Associative learning increases adult neurogenesis during a critical period

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 175-181

  Anderson, Megan L ^a   Sisti, Helene M ^a   Curlik, Daniel M ^a   Shors, Tracey J ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult neurogenesis; Dentate gyrus; Hippocampus; Sprague Dawley rats; Trace eyeblink conditioning

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BLINKING; CELL SURVIVAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 78650770070     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07486.x     Document Type: Article

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