Outputs (2)

The effect of the amount of blocking cue training on blocking of appetitive conditioning in mice (2015)
Journal Article
Sanderson, D. J., Jones, W. S., & Austen, J. M. (2016). The effect of the amount of blocking cue training on blocking of appetitive conditioning in mice. Behavioural Processes, 122, 36-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2015.11.007

Conditioning of a target cue is blocked when it occurs in compound with another cue (blocking cue) that has already received conditioning. Although blocking of appetitive conditioning is commonly used in rodents as a test of selective learning, it ha... Read More about The effect of the amount of blocking cue training on blocking of appetitive conditioning in mice.

Worsening cognitive impairment and neurodegenerative pathology progressively increase risk for delirium (2015)
Journal Article
Davis, D. H. J., Skelly, D. .., Murray, C., Hennessy, E., Bowen, J., Norton, S., …Cunningham, C. (2015). Worsening cognitive impairment and neurodegenerative pathology progressively increase risk for delirium. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 23(4), 403-415. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2014.08.005

Background: Delirium is a profound neuropsychiatric disturbance precipitated by acute illness. Although dementia is the major risk factor this has typically been considered a binary quantity (i.e., cognitively impaired versus cognitively normal) with... Read More about Worsening cognitive impairment and neurodegenerative pathology progressively increase risk for delirium.