Amblyopia decreases activation of the corticogeniculate pathway and visual thalamic reticularis in attentive rats: A 'focal attention' hypothesis

Neuroscience

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 805-817

  Montero, V M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Consciousness; Lateral geniculate nucleus; Oscillations; Thalamic reticular nucleus; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOPIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; INNERVATION; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; LATERAL RETICULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRIATE CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

AMBLYOPIA; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENICULATE BODIES; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; THALAMIC NUCLEI; TIME FACTORS; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0032908024     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(98)00632-0     Document Type: Article

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