By utilizing new information from both clinical and experimental (lesion, electrophysiological,
and gene-activation) studies with animals, the anatomy underlying anterograde amnesia …

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 …

The natural preference for novel objects which is displayed by rats has been used as a
behavioural index to test object recognition. In this series of experiments the standard …

The generation of new neurons in the adult mammalian brain has been documented in
numerous recent reports. Studies undertaken so far indicate that adult hippocampal …

Genes and environment are both essential and interdependent determinants of behavioral
responses. Behavioral genetics focuses on the role of genes on behavior. In this article, we …

One of the routine memory abilities impaired in amnesic patients with temporal-lobe damage
is object-recognition memory—the ability to discriminate the familiarity of previously …

High levels of NPY expression in brain regions important for learning and memory together
with its neuromodulatory and neurotrophic effects suggest a regulatory role for NPY in …

Survivors of sepsis often develop long-term cognitive impairments. This review aimed at
exploring the results of the behavioral tools and tests which have been used to evaluate …

Exposure to stress during gestation results in physiological and behavioral alterations that
persist into adulthood. This study examined the effects of prenatal stress on the postnatal …

Rats with perirhinal cortex lesions were sequentially trained in a rectangular water tank on a
series of 3 visual discriminations, each between mirror-imaged stimuli. When these same …