The anatomical relationships of the prefrontal cortex with limbic structures and the basal ganglia

Journal of Psychopharmacology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 99-106

  Groenewegen, Henk J ^a   Wright, Christopher I ^a   Uylings, Harry B M ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Netherlands Inst for Brain R   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Basal ganglia; Parallel processing; Prefrontal cortex; Thalamus; Ventral striatum

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANATOMY; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; FRONTAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIMBIC CORTEX; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROANATOMY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN MAPPING; DOPAMINE; FRONTAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 0030904732     PISSN: 02698811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/026988119701100202     Document Type: Review

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