Disconnection of the amygdala central nucleus and the substantia innominata/nucleus basalis magnocellularis disrupts performance in a sustained attention task

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 80-89

  Holland, Peter C ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Attention; Brain lesions; Cholinergic system; Nucleus basalis; Substantia innominata

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; RAT; SUBSTANTIA INNOMINATA; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; BASAL NUCLEUS OF MEYNERT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; SUBSTANTIA INNOMINATA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33847282414     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.121.1.80     Document Type: Article

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