From learning to memory: What flies can tell us about intellectual disability treatment

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 6, Issue JUN, 2015, Pages

  Androschuk, Alaura ^a   Al Jabri, Basma ^a   Bolduc, Francois V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Drosophila; Fragile X; Intellectual disability; Learning; Memory

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP BINDING PROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP PHOSPHODIESTERASE; CYCLIC AMP RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

CELL ADHESION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMORBIDITY; CYTOSKELETON; DROSOPHILA; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OLFACTORY MEMORY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SHANK2 GENE; SHANK3 GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84940105148     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00085     Document Type: Review

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