Disambiguating the similar: The dentate gyrus and pattern separation

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 56-65

  Schmidt, Brandy ^a   Marrone, Diano F ^b,c   Markus, Etan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; IEG; Neurogenesis; Remapping

Indexed keywords

ARC GENE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL COUNT; DENTATE GYRUS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPISODIC MEMORY; GENE ACTIVATION; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; INFRAPYRAMIDAL BLADE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRAPYRAMIDAL BLADE; ZIF268 GENE;

ANIMALS; DENTATE GYRUS; HUMANS; MEMORY, EPISODIC; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS;

EID: 80053174604     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.08.039     Document Type: Article

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