The impact of a corticotectal impulse on the awake superior colliculus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2250-2259

  Bereshpolova, Yulia ^a   Stoelzel, Carl R ^a   Gusev, Alexander G ^a   Bezdudnaya, Tatiana ^a   Swadlow, Harvey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Awake recording; Corticotectal; Intrinsically bursting; Superior colliculus; Synaptic depression; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; MONOSYNAPTIC REFLEX; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY CORTEX; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; VISUAL CORTEX; WAKEFULNESS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; RABBITS; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 33645650391     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4402-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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