Environmental enrichment is associated with rapid volumetric brain changes in adult mice

NeuroImage

Volumn 109, Issue , 2015, Pages 190-198

  Scholz, Jan ^a   Allemang Grand, Rylan ^a,b   Dazai, Jun ^a   Lerch, Jason P ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

DBM; Environmental enrichment; In vivo MRI; Maze; Mice

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CAPSULA INTERNA; CEREBELLUM FLOCCULUS; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DENTATE GYRUS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FOREBRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; STRIATE CORTEX; SUBICULUM; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; VISUAL CORTEX; VOLUMETRY; WHITE MATTER; AGING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; BRAIN; C57BL MOUSE; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; HOUSING, ANIMAL; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY;

EID: 84921485077     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.01.027     Document Type: Article

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