Spatial navigation-A unique window into physiological and pathological aging

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue JUN, 2012, Pages

  Gazova, Ivana ^a,b   Vlcek, Kamil ^b,c   Laczó, Jan ^a,b   Nedelska, Zuzana ^a,b   Hyncicova, Eva ^a   Mokrisova, Ivana ^a   Sheardova, Katerina ^b   Hort, Jakub ^a,b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b ST ANNE S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Allocentric navigation; Alzheimer's disease; Egocentric navigation; Mild cognitive impairment; Pathological ageing; Physiological ageing; Spatial navigation

Indexed keywords

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; DISEASE MODEL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPATIAL NAVIGATION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84865078255     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2012.00016     Document Type: Article

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