Acetylcholine facilitates recovery of episodic memory after brain damage

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 40, 2012, Pages 13787-13795

  Croxson, Paula L ^a,b   Browning, Philip G F ^a,b   Gaffan, David ^b   Baxter, Mark G ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DAMAGE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; METAL RECOVERY; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; REWARD; RHESUS MONKEY; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ANIMALS; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FORNIX, BRAIN; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MAMILLARY BODIES; MEMORY, EPISODIC; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REWARD; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84866999042     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2947-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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