Neural circuits for triggering saccades in the brainstem

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 171, Issue , 2008, Pages 79-85

  Shinoda, Yoshikazu ^a   Sugiuchi, Yuriko ^a   Izawa, Yoshiko ^a   Takahashi, Mayu ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

abducens motoneuron; fixation neuron; inhibitory burst neuron (IBN); omnipause neuron (OPN); saccade; superior colliculus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN STEM; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; EXCITATION; INFERIOR CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; INHIBITORY BURST NEURON; MONOSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; NEURAL CIRCUIT; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; OMNIPAUSE NEURON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL;

EID: 49349110552     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(08)00611-0     Document Type: Chapter

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