Cognitive rehabilitation reduces cognitive impairment and normalizes hippocampal CA1 architecture in a rat model of vascular dementia

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 872-879

  Langdon, Kristopher D ^a,b   Granter Button, Shirley ^a   Harley, Carolyn W ^a   Moody Corbett, Frances ^a   Peeling, James ^c,d   Corbett, Dale ^a,b,e,f  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognition; Cognitive rehabilitation; Dementia; Hippocampus; Hypoperfusion; Learning and memory

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CELL COUNT; CELL VOLUME; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE REHABILITATION; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84878554088     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: 15597016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2013.21     Document Type: Article

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