Less efficient pattern separation may contribute to age-related spatial memory deficits

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2012, Pages 1-6

  Holden, Heather M ^a   Gilbert, Paul E ^a,b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Dentate gyrus; Hippocampus; Interference; Pattern separatio; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DENDRITIC CELL; DENTATE GYRUS; EPISODIC MEMORY; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; RISK FACTOR; SCIENCE; SHORT SURVEY; SPATIAL MEMORY; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84862741813     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2012.00009     Document Type: Short Survey

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