Enrichment and training improve cognition in rats with cortical malformations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Jenks, Kyle R ^a   Lucas, Marcella M ^a   Duffy, Ben A ^b   Robbins, Ashlee A ^a   Gimi, Barjor ^a   Barry, Jeremy M ^a   Scott, Rod C ^a,b  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLAZOXYMETHANOL ACETATE;

ACTIVE AVOIDANCE TEST; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL DYSPLASIA; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MALFORMATIONS OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT; MAZE LEARNING; METHYLAZOXYMETHANOL ACETATE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS;

EID: 84892907805     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084492     Document Type: Article

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