Learning impairments identified early in life are predictive of future impairments associated with aging

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 294, Issue , 2015, Pages 224-233

  Hullinger, Rikki ^b   Burger, Corinna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognitive impairment; Hippocampus; Inferior learners; Morris water maze; Novel object recognition memory impairment; Superior learners; Young rats

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; LEARNING DISORDER; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL DETERIORATION; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; NOVEL OBJECT RECOGNITION TEST; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENESCENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ACUITY; AGING; ANIMAL; COGNITION DISORDERS; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; RECOGNITION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; COGNITION DISORDERS; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84940899286     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2015.08.004     Document Type: Article

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