Attentional orienting is impaired by unilateral lesions of the thalamic reticular nucleus in the rat

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 10135-10139

  Weese, G Daniel ^a   Phillips, Janice M ^b   Brown, Verity J ^b  

^a HAMPDEN SYDNEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Ibotenic acid; Neglect; Orienting; Rat; Thalamic reticular nucleus

Indexed keywords

IBOTENIC ACID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPONSE TIME; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS;

EID: 0033571902     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-22-10135.1999     Document Type: Article

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