Sustaining high acetylcholine levels in the frontal cortex, but not retrosplenial cortex, recovers spatial memory performance in a rodent model of diencephalic amnesia

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 226-236

  Savage, Lisa M ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Diencephalic amnesia; Frontal cortex; Rat; Retrosplenial cortex; Spatial memory performance; Spontaneous alternation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; PHYSOSTIGMINE; PYRITHIAMINE;

ACETYLCHOLINE BRAIN LEVEL; ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC STIMULATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; DRUG EFFECT; FRONTAL CORTEX; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PERSEVERATION; RAT; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; SPATIAL MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CINGULATE GYRUS; FRONTAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; KORSAKOFF PSYCHOSIS; MAZE TEST; METABOLISM; MICRODIALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; THALAMUS; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; HIPPOCAMPUS; KORSAKOFF SYNDROME; MAZE LEARNING; MICRODIALYSIS; MODELS, ANIMAL; PHYSOSTIGMINE; PYRITHIAMINE; RATS; THALAMUS; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84863849639     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0027257     Document Type: Article

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