Neurocognitive Aging and the Hippocampus across Species

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 800-812

  Leal, Stephanie L ^a,b   Yassa, Michael A ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DOPAMINE; NORADRENALIN;

AGING; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITION; COGNITIVE RESERVE; DENTATE GYRUS; EPIGENETICS; EPISODIC MEMORY; EXCITATION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEURONAVIGATION; NONHUMAN; PERFORANT NERVE TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; VISUAL MEMORY; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

AGING; ANIMALS; COGNITION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MEMORY;

EID: 84947447858     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: 1878108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2015.10.003     Document Type: Review

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