Aging and memory in animals

Encyclopedia of Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 167-174

  Rapp, P R ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Estrogen; Hippocampus; Individual differences; Intervention; Long term depression; Long term potentiation; Morphometry; Neurophysiology; Neuropsychology; Nonhuman primate; Prefrontal cortex; Rat

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958059096     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-008045046-9.00744-0     Document Type: Chapter

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