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BRAIN & DEVELOPMENT
Volume 28, Issue 2, Pages 109-114Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2005.05.008
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prenatal environmental conditions; noise; music; spatial memory; neurogenesis; hippocampus
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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. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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