Anatomical analysis of afferent projections to the medial prefrontal cortex in the rat

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 149-179

  Hoover, Walter B ^a   Vertes, Robert P ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Claustrum; Insular cortex; Mediodorsal nucleus of thalamus; Memory; Nucleus reuniens

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLAUSTRUM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FOREBRAIN; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HIPPOCAMPUS; INSULA; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MEMORY; MESENCEPHALON; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; TECHNIQUE; THALAMUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; GYRUS CINGULI; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MEDIODORSAL THALAMIC NUCLEUS; MIDLINE THALAMIC NUCLEI; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STAINING AND LABELING;

PRIMATES; RATTUS;

EID: 34548560465     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-007-0150-4     Document Type: Article

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