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Learning Disorders

Known as: academic skills disorder, Learning differences, Learning Disorders [Disease/Finding] 
Conditions characterized by a significant discrepancy between an individual's perceived level of intellect and their ability to acquire new language… (More)

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1951-2018
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ATTENTION IMPAIRMENTAgraphiaAphasiaAttention deficit hyperactivity disorder
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Developmental reading disorderIntellectual disability, borderlineLanguage DisordersMemory Disorders
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Learning Disorders
Mental disorders
nervous system disorder
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Mental Retardation
Memory Disorders

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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Frontal cortex subregions play distinct roles in choices between actions and stimuli.
The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) has been implicated in reinforcement-guided decision making, error monitoring, and the reversal of… (More)
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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Ventral hippocampal lesions affect anxiety but not spatial learning.
Rats with cytotoxic ventral hippocampal lesions which removed approximately 50% of the hippocampus (including dentate gyrus… (More)
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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Neonatal exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE 153) disrupts spontaneous behaviour, impairs learning and memory, and decreases hippocampal cholinergic receptors in adult mice.
Neonatal exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE 153) disrupts spontaneous behaviour, impairs learning and memory, and… (More)
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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Reversal of age-related learning deficits and brain oxidative stress in mice with superoxide dismutase/catalase mimetics.
Oxidative stress has been implicated in cognitive impairment in both old experimental animals and aged humans. This implication… (More)
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Early-onset amyloid deposition and cognitive deficits in transgenic mice expressing a double mutant form of amyloid precursor protein 695.
We have created early-onset transgenic (Tg) models by exploiting the synergistic effects of familial Alzheimer's disease… (More)
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Impaired synaptic plasticity and learning in aged amyloid precursor protein transgenic mice
We investigated synaptic communication and plasticity in hippocampal slices from mice overexpressing mutated 695-amino-acid human… (More)
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Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Severity of spatial learning impairment in aging: Development of a learning index for performance in the Morris water maze.
The Morris water maze task was originally designed to assess the rat's ability to learn to navigate to a specific location in a… (More)
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Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Synaptic plasticity and learning: selective impairment of learning rats and blockade of long-term potentiation in vivo by the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist AP5.
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  • The Journal of neuroscience : the official…
  • 1989
This paper reports a series of 5 experiments concerned with a possible role for N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors in certain… (More)
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Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Amelioration of cholinergic neuron atrophy and spatial memory impairment in aged rats by nerve growth factor.
In aged rodents, impairments in learning and memory have been associated with an age-dependent decline in forebrain of… (More)
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Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Left-handedness: association with immune disease, migraine, and developmental learning disorder.
We report an experimental study designed to test the following hypothesis derived from clinical observations: There is an… (More)
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