Time and tide in cerebellar memory formation

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 667-674

  De Zeeuw, Chris I ^a   Yeo, Christopher H ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE C;

BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; CONDITIONING; EYE MOVEMENT; EYELID REFLEX; LEARNING; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; REVIEW; SYNAPSE; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BLINKING; CEREBELLUM; CONDITIONING, EYELID; HUMANS; MEMORY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR;

EID: 27944479992     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2005.10.008     Document Type: Review

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