Prefrontal Cortical Up States Are Synchronized with Ventral Tegmental Area Activity

Synapse

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 143-152

  Peters, Yvette ^a   Barnhardt, Nicole E ^a   O'Donnell, Patricio ^a  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortex; Dopamine; Electrophysiology; In vivo intracellular recordings; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; LIDOCAINE; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; INNERVATION; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MALE; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; LIDOCAINE; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 1842510537     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.20015     Document Type: Article

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