Longitudinal analyses of operant performance on the serial implicit learning task (SILT) in the YAC128 Huntington's disease mouse line

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 88, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 130-136

  Brooks, Simon P ^a   Jones, Lesley ^b   Dunnett, Stephen B ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Cognitive tests; Huntington's disease; Operant testing; Phenotype; SILT; Transgenic mice; YAC128

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; SERIAL IMPLICIT LEARNING TASK; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WILD TYPE;

AGING; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SERIAL LEARNING;

EID: 84860837106     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: 18732747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2011.06.008     Document Type: Article

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