How stress alters memory in 'smart' snails

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Dalesman, Sarah ^a   Lukowiak, Ken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; LAKE WATER; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANADA; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; LONG TERM MEMORY; LYMNAEA; LYMNAEA STAGNALIS; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; UNITED KINGDOM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MEMORY; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; POND; TIME;

GASTROPODA; LYMNAEA STAGNALIS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CALCIUM; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CROWDING; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; LEARNING; LYMNAEA; MEMORY; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NETHERLANDS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHENOTYPE; PONDS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 84857577647     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032334     Document Type: Article

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