Development and validation of a sensitive entropy-based measure for the water maze

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue DEC, 2009, Pages

  Maei, Hamid R ^a,b,c   Zaslavsky, Kirill ^a   Wang, Afra H ^a,b   Yiu, Adelaide P ^a,b   Teixeira, Cátia M ^a,d   Josselyn, Sheena A ^a,b   Frankland, Paul W ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED SOBRE ENFERMEDADES NEURODEGENERATIVAS CIBERNED   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; CaMKII; Hippocampus; Monte Carlo method; Navigation; Spatial learning; Spatial memory; Transgenic mouse

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864526440     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.07.033.2009     Document Type: Article

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