Lost in transition: Aging-related changes in executive control by the medial prefrontal cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3765-3777

  Caetano, Marcelo S ^a,b   Horst, Nicole K ^a,b,d   Harenberg, Linda ^b   Liu, Benjamine ^c   Arnsten, Amy F T ^a   Laubach, Mark ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHN B PIERCE LABORATORY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of Cambridge   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84863276777     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6011-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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