Correlations between hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis parameters depend on age and learning capacity.
Glucocorticoid hormones are released after activation of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and in the brain can modulate synaptic plasticity and memory formation. Clear individual differences in spatial learning and memory in the water maze allowed classification of groups of young (3 mo...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2005
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