Insufficient augmentation of ambient GABA responsible for age-related cognitive deficit

Cognitive Processing

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 151-159

  Fujiwara, Hideyuki ^a   Zheng, Meihong ^b   Miyamoto, Ai ^c   Hoshino, Osamu ^a  

^a IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Age related cognitive decline; Ambient GABA; Neural network model; Noise reduction; Ongoing spontaneous neuronal activity; Signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID CARRIER;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RELEASE; AGE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COGNITIVE DEFECT; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

AGING; COGNITION DISORDERS; GABA PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A;

EID: 79959283128     PISSN: 16124782     EISSN: 16124790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-010-0375-7     Document Type: Article

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