Early postnatal exposure to a cafeteria diet interferes with recency and spatial memory, but not open field habituation in adolescent rats
(2020)
Journal Article
Wait, J., Burns, C., Jones, T., Harper, Z., Allen, E., Langley-Evans, S. C., & Voigt, J. (2021). Early postnatal exposure to a cafeteria diet interferes with recency and spatial memory, but not open field habituation in adolescent rats. Developmental Psychobiology, 63(3), 572-581. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22063
The cafeteria diet (CD), an experimental diet that mimics the obesogenic Western diet, can impair memory in adult rats. However, the suckling period is also particularly susceptible to diet?induced behavioural modification. Here, following exposure t... Read More about Early postnatal exposure to a cafeteria diet interferes with recency and spatial memory, but not open field habituation in adolescent rats.