Aging and KIBRA/WWC1 genotype affect spatial memory processes in a virtual navigation task

Hippocampus

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 919-930

  Schuck, Nicolas W ^a,b   Doeller, Christian F ^c   Schjeide, Brit Maren M ^d   Schröder, Julia ^d,e   Frensch, Peter A ^b   Bertram, Lars ^d   Li, Shu Chen ^a,f  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^e CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^f DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Hippocampus; KIBRA; Spatial navigation; Striatum

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WW AND C2 DOMAIN CONTAINING 1 PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; WWC1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL NAVIGATION TASK; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY; AGE; ALLELE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; ALLELES; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL NAVIGATION; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884717702     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22148     Document Type: Article

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