Opposing basal ganglia processes shape midbrain visuomotor activity bilaterally

Nature

Volumn 423, Issue 6943, 2003, Pages 982-986

  Jiang, Huai ^a   Stein, Barry E ^a   McHaffie, John G ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; SENSORY FEEDBACK; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

GAZE SHIFTS;

NEUROLOGY;

NERVOUS SYSTEM; SENSORY SYSTEM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CAT; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY SYSTEM; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; ANIMAL; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; FELIS CATUS;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; PARVALBUMIN;

ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; CATS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PARVALBUMINS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

EID: 0038789026     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01698     Document Type: Article

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