Effects of the activity of the internal globus pallidus-pedunculopontine loop on the transmission of the subthalamic nucleus-external globus pallidus-pacemaker oscillatory activities to the cortex

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 113-127

  Niktarash, Arash Hadipour ^a,b   Shahidi, Gholam Ali ^a,b  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS IPM   (Iran)

Author keywords

Basal ganglia; Computational models; Globus pallidus; Oscillations; Parkinsonian tremor; Pedunculopontine nucleus; Subthalamic nucleus; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

BASAL GANGLIA; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; CORTEXES; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; OSCILLATION; PARKINSONIAN TREMOR; PEDUNCULOPONTINE NUCLEUS; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; SYNAPTIC CONNECTIONS; THALAMUS;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

CALCIUM CHANNEL T TYPE;

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; CALCIUM CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE TRACT; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PACEMAKER; PARKINSONISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TREMOR;

EID: 1542401142     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JCNS.0000014105.87625.5f     Document Type: Article

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