Publications by authors named "Denna Bakhtiar"
Behav Neurosci
December 2023
Article Synopsis
- Understanding cognitive health in older adults involves studying the neurobiology of age-related decline and how some individuals maintain cognitive abilities.
- Aged humans and rodents tend to shift their learning strategies toward stimulus-response learning, suggesting an interaction between the caudate nucleus/dorsal striatum (DS) and hippocampus (HPC).
- The recent study found that inactivating the DS did not improve visuospatial paired associate learning in aged rats, indicating that elevated DS activity may not directly cause cognitive decline in this specific type of memory task.
