Timing of conditioned eyeblink responses is impaired in cerebellar patients

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 3919-3931

  Gerwig, Marcus ^a   Hajjar, Karim ^a   Dimitrova, Albena ^a   Maschke, Matthias ^a   Kolb, Florian P ^b   Frings, Markus ^a   Thilmann, Alfred F ^c   Forsting, Michael ^a   Diener, Hans Christoph ^a   Timmann, Dagmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c Fachklinik Rhein Ruhr ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Blink reflex; Cerebellum; Eyeblink conditioning; Human; Timing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CEREBELLUM DEGENERATION; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INCIDENCE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SPINOCEREBELLAR ATAXIA TYPE 6; SPINOCEREBELLAR DEGENERATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOXEL BY VOXEL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CONDITIONING, EYELID; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 20244388396     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0266-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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