Electrical stimulation of rhesus monkey nucleus reticularis gigantocellularis: I. Characteristics of evoked head movements

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 156, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 342-356

  Quessy, Stephan ^a   Freedman, Edward G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrical stimulation; Eye counter rotation; Head movements

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GIGANTOCELLULAR RETICULAR NUCLEUS; HEAD MOVEMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX;

ANIMALS; AXONS; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEAD MOVEMENTS; MACACA MULATTA; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MOTOR NEURONS; NECK MUSCLES; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR; RETICULAR FORMATION; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 2942703786     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-003-1787-8     Document Type: Article

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