Selective disconnection of the hippocampal formation projections to the mammillary bodies produces only mild deficits on spatial memory tasks: Implications for fornix function

Hippocampus

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 945-957

  Vann, Seralynne D ^a   Erichsen, Jonathan T ^b   O'Mara, Shane M ^c   Aggleton, John P ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Diencephalon; Medial temporal lobe; Rat

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; MAMILLOTHALAMIC TRACT; MAMMILLARY BODY; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; POSTCOMMISSURAL FORNIX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AMNESIA, ANTEROGRADE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FORNIX, BRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MAMILLARY BODIES; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 80051950306     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20796     Document Type: Article

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