Impact of aging brain circuits on cognition

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1903-1915

  Samson, Rachel D ^a   Barnes, Carol A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Prefrontal cortex; Spatial learning; Synapse; Working memory

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP;

AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; EPISODIC MEMORY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WORKING MEMORY;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN WAVES; COGNITION; FRONTAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS;

EID: 84879216808     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12183     Document Type: Article

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