Cerebellar information flow in the thalamus: Implications for cortical functions

Thalamus and Related Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 141-146

  Molinari, Marco ^a   Restuccia, Domenico ^b,c,d   Leggio, Maria G ^a,b  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^d CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cognition; Motor cortex; Motor learning; Somatosensory cortex; Somatosensory evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CEREBELLUM NUCLEUS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; THALAMUS;

EID: 33847321215     PISSN: 14729288     EISSN: 17448107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1472928807000143     Document Type: Article

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