Lennart Heimer: Concepts of the ventral striatum and extended amygdala

Neurosurgical Focus

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Elias, W Jeff ^a   Ray, Dibyendu Kumar ^a   Jane Sr , John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal forebrain; Extended amygdala; Nucleus accumbens; Substantia innominata; Ventral pallidum; Ventral striatum

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BOOK; HISTOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; MEYNERT BASAL NUCLEUS; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SILVER STAINING;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BASAL NUCLEUS OF MEYNERT; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROLOGY; SILVER STAINING; TEXTBOOKS AS TOPIC;

EID: 52049101634     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10920684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/FOC/2008/25/7/E8     Document Type: Article

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