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Specificity of Functional Changes during Normal Brain Aging a
Author(s) -
BARNES C. A.,
FOSTER T. C.,
RAO G.,
MCNAUGHTON B. L.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1991.tb00195.x
Subject(s) - neuroscience , pathological , electrophysiology , hippocampus , central nervous system , brain function , nervous system , neural activity , biology , psychology , medicine , pathology
Although there is no question that age-related alterations in neural function occur in the central nervous system (CNS) of mammals, these changes tend to be somewhat circumscribed rather than completely global, even in pathological conditions. Examples of this kind of specificity of functional neural change are drawn from experiments on the electrophysiology of the senescent rat hippocampus.