Cognitive side effects of cancer therapy demonstrate a functional role for adult neurogenesis

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 227, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 376-379

  Monje, Michelle ^a   Dietrich, Jörg ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

" Chemobrain"; Chemotherapy; Hippocampal neurogenesis; Late effects; Radiation; White matter

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ATTENTION; BASAL GANGLION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; CELL POPULATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING DISORDER; MEMORY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEM CELL; WHITE MATTER;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS;

EID: 84855945935     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.05.012     Document Type: Review

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