The anterior thalamic head-direction signal is abolished by bilateral but not unilateral lesions of the lateral mammillary nucleus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 6673-6683

  Blair, Hugh T ^a   Cho, Jeiwon ^b   Sharp, Patricia E ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior thalamus; Head direction cell; Lateral mammillary nucleus; Navigation; Path integration; Single unit recording

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD; MALE; MAMMILLARY BODY; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMUS;

EID: 0033178440     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-15-06673.1999     Document Type: Article

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