Environmental enrichment as a method to improve cognitive function. What can we learn from animal models?

NeuroImage

Volumn 131, Issue , 2016, Pages 42-47

  Fischer, Andre ^a,b  

^a GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Environmental enrichment; Epigenetics; Histone acetylation; Memory; Neurodegeneration

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE MODEL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; KINESIOTHERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; EXERCISE THERAPY; HUMANS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84950140685     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.11.039     Document Type: Article

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