Exercise enhances memory consolidation in the aging brain

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Snigdha, Shikha ^a   de Rivera, Christina ^b   Milgram, Norton W ^b   Cotman, Carl W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CanCog Technologies Incorporated   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Concurrent discrimination; Dogs; Exercise; Memory consolidation; Novel object recognition; Object location; Reversal learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEAGLE; BRAIN REGION; CANINE MODEL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXERCISE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; INTERVENTION STUDY; LEARNING; LEARNING TEST; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; OBJECT LOCATION MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

EID: 84895808473     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00003     Document Type: Article

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