Morris water maze: a versatile and pertinent tool for assessing spatial learning and memory

MZ Othman, Z Hassan, ATC Has - Experimental animals, 2022 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Since its development about 40 years ago (1981–2021), Morris water maze has turned into
a very popular tool for assessing spatial learning and memory. Its many advantages have …

Assessment of spatial memory in mice

S Sharma, S Rakoczy, H Brown-Borg - Life sciences, 2010 - Elsevier
Improvements in health care have greatly increased life span in the United States. The focus
is now shifting from physical well-being to improvement in mental well-being or maintenance …

Apolipoprotein E4 produced in GABAergic interneurons causes learning and memory deficits in mice

J Knoferle, SY Yoon, D Walker, L Leung… - Journal of …, 2014 - Soc Neuroscience
Apolipoprotein (apo) E4 is expressed in many types of brain cells, is associated with age-
dependent decline of learning and memory in humans, and is the major genetic risk factor …

Spatial navigation is distinctively impaired in persistent postural perceptual dizziness

HA Breinbauer, MD Contreras, JP Lira… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Objective: To determine whether performance in a virtual spatial navigational task is poorer
in persistent postural perceptual dizziness (PPPD) patients than in healthy volunteers and …

Pathfinder: open source software for analyzing spatial navigation search strategies

MB Cooke, TP O'Leary, P Harris, R Ma… - …, 2020 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Spatial navigation is a universal behavior that varies depending on goals, experience and
available sensory stimuli. Spatial navigational tasks are routinely used to study learning …

The water maze paradigm in experimental studies of chronic cognitive disorders: Theory, protocols, analysis, and inference

M Kapadia, J Xu, B Sakic - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
An instrumental step in assessing the validity of animal models of chronic cognitive
disorders is to document disease-related deficits in learning/memory capacity. The water …

[HTML][HTML] Protective effect of α-terpineol against impairment of hippocampal synaptic plasticity and spatial memory following transient cerebral ischemia in rats

M Moghimi, S Parvardeh, TM Zanjani… - Iranian journal of basic …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective (s): Cerebral ischemia is often associated with cognitive impairment. Oxidative
stress has a crucial role in the memory deficit following ischemia/reperfusion injury. α …

[HTML][HTML] Pupillary responses and memory-guided visual search reveal age-related and Alzheimer's-related memory decline

MC Dragan, TK Leonard, AM Lozano… - Behavioural Brain …, 2017 - Elsevier
Episodic memory–composed of memory for unique spatiotemporal experiences–is known to
decline with aging, and even more severely in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Memory for trial …

Value-complexity tradeoff explains mouse navigational learning

N Amir, R Suliman-Lavie, M Tal… - PLOS Computational …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
We introduce a novel methodology for describing animal behavior as a tradeoff between
value and complexity, using the Morris Water Maze navigation task as a concrete example …

A concomitant bone fracture delays cognitive recovery from traumatic brain injury

Y Suto, K Nagata, SM Ahmed… - Journal of Trauma …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND Brain injury progression after severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) is
associated with worsening cerebral inflammation but it is unknown how a concomitant bone …