“…Previous studies using the Morris water maze (Trejo et al ., 2007) and the Barnes maze (Sonntag and Csiszar, unpublished data, 2012) also yielded similar results, showing that IGF‐1‐deficient mice exhibit impaired spatial working memory. Learning and/or memory deficits were also observed in GH/IGF‐1‐deficient Lewis dwarf rats (Nieves‐Martinez et al ., 2010), spontaneously dwarf SD rats (Li et al ., 2011), and in Ames dwarf mice in some (Derenne et al ., 2011), but not all (Sharma et al ., 2010), studies.…”