Inactivation of ventral midline thalamus produces selective spatial delayed conditional discrimination impairment in the rat

Hippocampus

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 853-860

  Hembrook, Jacqueline R ^a   Onos, Kristen D ^a   Mair, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

DNMTP; Radial maze DNM; Reuniens nucleus; Rhomboid nucleus

Indexed keywords

MUSCIMOL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED NONMATCHING TO POSITION; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REUNIEN NUCLEUS; RHOMBOID NUCLEUS; SPATIAL DELAYED CONDITIONAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; THALAMUS; VARYING CHOICE RADIAL MAZE DELAYED NONMATCHING; VENTRAL MIDLINE THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); GABA-A RECEPTOR AGONISTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MIDLINE THALAMIC NUCLEI; MUSCIMOL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84858750925     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20945     Document Type: Article

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