Mindspan: Lessons from rat models of neurocognitive aging

ILAR Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 32-40

  Gallagher, Michela ^a   Stocker, Amy M ^a   Koh, Ming Teng ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Hippocampus; Memory impairment; Mindspan; Neurocognition; Orbitofrontal cortex; Rat strain; Spatial; Water maze

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 79958056062     PISSN: 10842020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ilar.52.1.32     Document Type: Review

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