Temporal effects of environmental enrichment-mediated functional improvement after experimental traumatic brain injury in rats

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 558-564

  Matter, Ashley M ^a,b   Folweiler, Kaitlin A ^a,b   Curatolo, Lauren M ^a,b   Kline, Anthony E ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

beam walking; controlled cortical impact; functional recovery; learning and memory; Morris water maze; neurobehavior; traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE REHABILITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; TEMPORAL SUMMATION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURIES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79959292466     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968310397206     Document Type: Article

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