Neurophysiology of converging synaptic inputs from the rat prefrontal cortex, amygdala, midline thalamus, and hippocampal formation onto single neurons of the caudate/putamen and nucleus accumbens

Hippocampus

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 495-512

  Finch, David M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Entorhinal cortex; Infralimbic; Prelimbic; Striatum; Subiculum

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL GOLD; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DIENCEPHALON; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EXCITATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RAT; SPIKE; SUBICULUM; TELENCEPHALON; THALAMUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PUTAMEN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES; THALAMUS;

EID: 0029801505     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1063(1996)6:5<495::AID-HIPO3>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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