Shifting and stopping: Fronto-striatal substrates, neurochemical modulation and clinical implications

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1481, 2007, Pages 917-932

  Robbins, T W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inhibition; Neurotransmitters; Prefrontal cortex; Striatum; Switching

Indexed keywords

IMAGING METHOD; INHIBITION; MORPHOLOGY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDER; NEUROLOGY; RODENT;

ANIMALIA; MARMOSETS; RATTUS;

AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS;

ATTENTION; BASAL GANGLION; CORPUS STRIATUM; HUMAN; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVIEW;

ATTENTION; BASAL GANGLIA; CORPUS STRIATUM; HUMANS; LEARNING; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 34250368073     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2097     Document Type: Conference Paper

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