The evolution of prefrontal inputs to the cortico-pontine system: Diffusion imaging evidence from macaque monkeys and humans

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 811-818

  Ramnani, Narender ^a,b   Behrens, Timothy E J ^b   Johansen Berg, Heidi ^b   Richter, Marlene C ^c   Pinsk, Mark A ^c   Andersson, Jesper L R ^d   Rudebeck, Peter ^a   Ciccarelli, Olga ^e   Richter, Wolfgang ^c   Thompson, Alan J ^e   Gross, Charles G ^c   Robson, Matthew D ^b   Kastner, Sabine ^c   Matthews, Paul M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Diffusion imaging; Macaque; Pontine nuclei; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IN VIVO STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACACA; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CEREBELLAR CORTEX; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33646859688     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhj024     Document Type: Article

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