| Literature DB >> 16181757 |
Hong Kim1, Myoung-Hwa Lee, Hyun-Kyung Chang, Taeck-Hyun Lee, Hee-Hyuk Lee, Min-Chul Shin, Mal-Soon Shin, Ran Won, Hye-Sook Shin, Chang-Ju Kim.
Abstract
During the prenatal period, the development of individual is influenced by the environmental factors. In the present study, the influence of prenatal noise and music on the spatial memory and neurogenesis in the hippocampus of developing rats was investigated. The exposure to the noise during pregnancy caused growth retardation, decreased neurogenesis in the hippocampus, and impaired spatial learning ability in pups. The exposure to music during pregnancy, on the other hand, caused increased neurogenesis in the hippocampus and enhanced spatial learning ability in pups. The present study has shown the importance of the prenatal environmental conditions for the cognition and brain development.Entities:
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Year: 2005 PMID： 16181757 DOI： 10.1016/j.braindev.2005.05.008
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Brain Dev ISSN： 0387-7604 Impact factor: 1.961