Early onset of age-related changes on neural processing in rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 134-143

  Navarro Mora, G ^a,c   Fabene, P F ^a   van Luijtelaar, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aging; Auditory evoked potentials; EEG; Power spectrum; Rats; Sensory processing

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; MALE; MATURITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN WAVES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 79952480674     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.02.026     Document Type: Article

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