The medial supramammillary nucleus, spatial learning and the frequency of hippocampal theta activity

Brain Research

Volumn 764, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 101-108

  Pan, Wei Xing ^a   McNaughton, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Benzodiazepine; Hippocampus; Hypothalamus; Learning; Theta; Water maze

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS THETA RHYTHM; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; MAMMILLARY BODY; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETICULAR FORMATION; SPATIAL MEMORY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MAMILLARY BODIES; MAZE LEARNING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 0030794921     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00431-9     Document Type: Article

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