A lightweight telemetry system for recording neuronal activity in freely behaving small animals

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 62-71

  Schregardus, Diederik S ^a   Pieneman, Anton W ^a   Ter Maat, Andries ^b   Jansen, René F ^a   Brouwer, Tinco J F ^a   Gahr, Manfred L ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Birdsong; Multi unit recording; Single unit recording; Telemetry; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

TUNGSTEN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ELECTRODE; FILTER; IMPEDANCE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING; TELEMETRY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANESTHETICS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FINCHES; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TELEMETRY; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 33744940790     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2005.12.028     Document Type: Article

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