Adult hippocampal neurogenesis and cognitive flexibility-linking memory and mood

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 335-346

  Anacker, Christoph ^a   Hen, René ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY; DENTATE GYRUS; ENDOPHENOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; MOOD; MOOD DISORDER; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PATTERN SEPARATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; AFFECT; ANIMAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT;

AFFECT; ANIMALS; COGNITION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MEMORY; MICE; NEUROGENESIS; RATS;

EID: 85019068608     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn.2017.45     Document Type: Review

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