Anterior thalamic unit discharge profiles and coherence with hippocampal theta rhythm

Thalamus and Related Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 133-144

  Albo, Zimbul ^a   Di Prisco, Gonzalo Viana ^a,b   Vertes, Robert P ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior thalamus; Coherence; Hippocampus; Memory; Theta rhythm

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS THETA RHYTHM; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MODULATION; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RECORDING; REVIEW; SPATIAL MEMORY; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

EID: 0037378519     PISSN: 14729288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-9288(03)00006-2     Document Type: Article

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