FIGURE 2.

Cognitive data adapted from previously published work reveals that similar doses of the ions used in the present study elicit significant neurobehavioral deficits 6 weeks following exposure. (a) Novel object recognition (NOR) and object in place (OiP) tasks reveal significant deficits on the OiP task after exposure to energetic ¹⁶O ions (Adapted from Parihar et al., 2015a). (b) Animals subjected to similar tasks following exposure to a slightly lower dose of ²⁸Si ions exhibit significant deficits in NOR and OIP memory (Adapted from Acharya et al., 2017). (c) Animals exposed to the ⁴He ions and subjected to the temporal order (TO) and OiP tasks show significant impairments in each of these tasks (Adapted from Parihar et al., 2018)