Lecture 4 Resources

Resources Environmental Enrichment

Guilarte

Journal Articles

Anna I, Olsson S, Dahlborn K, Improving Housing Conditions for Laboratory Mice: A Review of 'Environmental Enrichment', Laboratory Animals, 2002, vol. 36, page 243-270

Cué CM, Baamonde C, Lumbreras M, Paz J, Davisson MT, Schmidt C, Dierssen M, Flórez J, Differential Effects of Environmental Enrichment on Behavior and Learning of Male and Female Ts65Dn Mice, a model for Down Syndrome, Behavioural Brain Research, 2002, vol. 134, page 185-200

Diamond MC, Rosenzweig MR, Bennett EL, Lindner B, Lyon L, Effects of Environmental enrichment and Impoverishment on Rat Cerebral Cortex, Journal of Neurobiology, 1972, vol. 3, page 47-64
Faherty CJ, Kerley D, Smeyne RJ, A Golgi-Cox Morphological Analysis of Neuronal Changes Induced by Environmental Enrichment, Developmental Brain Research, 2003, vol. 141, page 55-61

Faverjon S, Silveira DC, Fu DD, Cha BH, Akman C, Hu Y, Holmes GL, Beneficial effects of Enriched Environment following Status Epilepticus in Immature Rats, Neurology , 2002, vol.59, page 1356-1364
Guilarte TR, Toscano CD, McGlothan JL, Weaver SA, Environmental Enrichment Reverses Cognitive and Molecular Deficits Induced by Developmental Lead Exposure, Annals of Neurology, 2003, vol. 53, page 50-56

Hockly E, Cordery PM, Woodman B, Mahal A, van Dellen A, Blakemore C, Lewis CM, Hannan AJ, Bates GP, Environmental Enrichment Slows Disease Progression in R6/2 Huntington's Disease Mice, Annals of Neurology, 2002, vol.51, page 235-242

Ickes BR, Pham TM, Sanders LA, Albeck DS, Mohammed AH, Granholm A, Long-Term Environmental Enrichment Leads to Regional Increases in Neurotrophin Levels in Rat Brain, Experimental Neurology, 2000, vol. 164 (1), pag 45-52

Kempermann G, Kuhn HG, Gage FH, Experience-Induced Neurogenesis in the Senescent Dentate Gyrus, The Journal of Neuroscience, 1998, vol. 18, page 3206-3212

Nilsson M, Perfilieva E, Ulf J, Orwar O, Eriksson PS, Enriched Environmental Increases Neurogenesis in the Adult Rat Dentate Gyrus and Improves Spatial Memory, Journal of Neurobiology, 1999, vol.39, page 569-578

Pham TM, Ickes B, Albeck D, Söderström S, Granholm A, Mohammed AH, Changes in Brain Nerve Growth Factor Levels and Nerve Growth Factor Receptors in Rats Exposed to Environmental Enrichment for One Year, Neuroscience, 1999, vol. 94, page 279-286
Pinaud R, Penner MR, Robertson HA, Currie RW, Upregulation of the Immediate Early Gene Arc in the Brain of Rats Exposed to Environmental Enrichment: Implications for Molecular Plasticity, Molecular Brain Research, 2001, vol. 91, page 50-56

Praag HV, Kempermann G, Gage FH, Neural Consequences of Environmental Enrichment. Neuroscience, 2000, vol. 1, page 191-198

Rampon C, Jiang CH, Dong H, Tang Y, Lockhart DJ, Schultz PG, Tsien JZ, Hu Y, Effects of Environmental Enrichment on Gene Expression in the Brain, PNAS, 2000, vol. 97, page 12880-12884

Rosenzweig MR, Rat Brain: Effects of Environmental Enrichment on Wet and Dry Weights, Science, 1969, vol. 163, page 825-826

Torasdotter M, Metsis M, Henriksson BG, Winblad B, Mohammed AH, Environmental Enrichment Results in Higher Levels of Nerve Growth Factor mRNA in Rat Visual Cortex and Hippocampus, Behavioural Brain Research, 1998, vol. 93, page 83-90

Tsai PP, Pachowsky U, Stelzer HD, Hackbarth H, Impact of Environmental Enrichment in Mice. 1: Effects of Housing Conditions on Body Weight, Organ Weights and Haematology in Different Strains, Laboratory Animals, 2002, vol. 36, page 411-419

Turner CA, Yang MC, Lewis MH. Environmental Enrichment: Effects on Stereotyped behavior and regional Neuronal Metabolic Activity. Brain Research 938: 15-21, 2002

Willams BM, Luo Y, Ward C, Redd K, Gibson R, Kuczaj SA, McCoy JG, Environmental Enrichment: Effects on Spatial Memory and Hippocampal CREB Immunoreactivity, Physiology & Behavior, 2001, vol.73, page 649-658

Yeoman B, Can we Trust Research Done with lab mice?, Discover, 2003, vol.24 , page 64-72