Thalamic-cortical-striatal circuitry subserves working memory during delayed responding on a radial arm maze

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 11061-11071

  Floresco, Stan B ^a   Braaksma, Deanna N ^a,b   Phillips, Anthony G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lidocaine induced reversible lesions; Medial dorsal thalamus; Neural networks; Nucleus accumbens; Prefrontal cortex; Rats; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0033573375     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-24-11061.1999     Document Type: Article

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