Spatial working memory and the brainstem cholinergic innervation to the anterior thalamus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1922-1928

  Mitchell, Anna S ^a   Dalrymple Alford, John C ^a   Christie, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Alcohol disorders; Anterior thalamic nuclei; Cholinergic systems; Laterodorsal tegmental nucleus; Schizophrenia; Scopolamine; Spatial working memory

Indexed keywords

SCOPOLAMINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRYPAN BLUE;

ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; DECISION MAKING; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; LIMBIC CORTEX; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SPATIAL MEMORY; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0036523106     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-05-01922.2002     Document Type: Article

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