Object/context specific memory deficits following medial frontal cortex damage in mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Spanswick, Simon C ^a,b   Dyck, Richard H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDIAL FRONTAL CORTEX; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BENZOXAZINES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FRONTAL LOBE; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OXAZINES;

EID: 84865197482     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043698     Document Type: Article

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