Brain injury impairs working memory and prefrontal circuit function

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn 6, Issue NOV, 2015, Pages

  Smith, Colin J ^a,b   Xiong, Guoxiang ^a   Elkind, Jaclynn A ^a   Putnam, Brendan ^a   Cohen, Akiva S ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Intrinsic excitability; Lateral fluid percussion injury; Medial prefrontal cortex; Synaptic transmission; Traumatic brain injury; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL DURATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOSIS; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MINIATURE ENDPLATE POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; T-MAZE TEST; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84949760386     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2015.00240     Document Type: Article

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