Substantia nigra pars reticulata neurons code initiation of a serial pattern: Implications for natural action sequences and sequential disorders

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1599-1608

  Meyer Luehmann, Melanie ^a,b,d   Thompson, Jeffrey F ^b,c,d   Berridge, Kent C ^c,d   Aldridge, J Wayne ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Dopamine; Fixed action pattern; Grooming; Huntington's disease; Movement; Movement sequences; Neuroethology; Neuronal activity; Obsessive compulsive disorder; Parkinson's disease; Rat; Serial order; Syntax, Tourette's syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROOMING; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RODENT; STEREOTYPY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 0036430149     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2002.02210.x     Document Type: Article

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