Using intracranial electrical stimulation to study the timing of prepulse inhibition of the startle reflex

Brain Research Protocols

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 67-74

  Li, Liang ^a   Yeomans, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Deeper layers of superior colliculus; Electrical stimulation; Inferior colliculus; Pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus; Startle reflex; Ventral pallidum

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN NUCLEUS; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HISTOLOGY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PONS; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STARTLE REFLEX; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TECHNIQUE; TIME;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EMOTIONS; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; REFLEX; SPINAL CORD; STARTLE REACTION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEI;

EID: 0034057199     PISSN: 1385299X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1385-299X(99)00056-2     Document Type: Article

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