The goal of this review article is to provide a resource for longitudinal studies, using animal
models, directed at understanding and modifying the relationship between cognition and …

Behavioral phenotyping has been gaining prominence due to the increased use of
transgenic animal models of neurological disorders. Repeated testing in the same cohort of …

In recent years the field of cognitive aging has flourished and expanded into many different
disciplines. It is probably, therefore, inevitable that some of the research has become very …

Objective: Longitudinal comparisons of neurocognitive functioning often reveal stability or
age-related increases in performance among adults under about 60 years of age. Because …

Recent studies suggest that some aspects of learning and memory may be altered by a
midlife loss of estrogen, indicating a potential causal relationship between the deficiency of …

N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors are present in high density within the cerebral
cortex and hippocampus and play an important role in learning and memory. NMDA …

—Two different aspects of learning (spatial and nonspatial) and two different types of
memory (reference and working) were simultaneously measured in populations of 3 …

Approximately 12 million US citizens consider themselves vegetarians, and 13.5 percent of
all US households claim to have at least one family member practicing some form of …

Glucocorticoids have a bimodal effect on cognition, hippocampal pyramidal neurons and
long-term potentiation (LTP). Transient increases in glucocorticoids improve performance at …

C57Bl/6 mice aged 3, 10, and 26 months were tested for spatial learning in the Morris water
maze. Ten and 26 month old mice were ad libitum-fed or diet restricted (60% of ad libitum …