Quantifying cognitive decrements caused by cranial radiotherapy

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 56, 2011, Pages

  Christie, Lori Ann ^a   Acharya, Munjal M ^a   Limoli, Charles L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive dysfunction; Elevated plus maze; Fear conditioning; Hippocampus; Issue 56; Medicine; Neuroscience; Novel place recognition; Radiotherapy; Water maze

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054945805     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/3108     Document Type: Article

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