The Morris water maze (MWM) was described 20 years ago as a device to investigate
spatial learning and memory in laboratory rats. In the meanwhile, it has become one of the …

The assessment of learning and memory in animal models has been widely employed in
scientific research for a long time. Among these models, those representing diseases with …

Advances in the management of pediatric brain tumors have increased survival rates in
children, but their quality of life is impaired due to cognitive deficits that arise from irradiation …

Therapeutic irradiation of the brain is associated with a number of adverse effects, including
cognitive impairment. Although the pathogenesis of radiation-induced cognitive injury is …

The purpose of Remembering the Times of Our Lives: Memory in Infancy and Beyond is to
trace the development from infancy through adulthood in the capacity to form, retain, and …

Hippocampal lesions produce memory deficits, but the exact function of the hippocampus
remains obscure. Evidence is presented that its role in memory may be ancillary to …

The effects of X-irradiation on proliferating cells in the dentate subgranular zone were
assessed in young adult Fisher 344 rats exposed to a range of X-ray doses and followed for …

Autism, a neuropsychiatric disorder that severely impairs social, language and cognitive
development, has a clinical onset in the first years of life. Because components of the limbic …

Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) involves clinically heterogeneous
dysfunctions of sustained attention, with behavioral overactivity and impulsivity, of juvenile …

Curative cancer treatment regimens often require cranial irradiation, resulting in lifelong
neurocognitive deficiency in cancer survivors. This deficiency is in part related to radiation …