Effects of electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve on the development of visual habituation in the cat

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 205, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-49

  Martínez Vargas, David ^a   Valdés Cruz, Alejandro ^a   Magdaleno Madrigal, Victor Manuel ^a   Almazán Alvarado, Salvador ^a   Fernández Mas, Rodrigo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PSIQUIATRÍA RAMÓN DE LA FUENTE MUÑIZ   (Mexico)

Author keywords

EEG activity; Habituation; Non associative learning; Vagus nerve; Vagus nerve stimulation; Visual pathway

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANISOCORIA; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HABITUATION; LATENT PERIOD; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; LEARNING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LICKING; MALE; MESENCEPHALON RETICULAR FORMATION; MIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPTIC CHIASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; SWALLOWING; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ALPHA RHYTHM; ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GENICULATE BODIES; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; OPTIC CHIASM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETICULAR FORMATION; TIME FACTORS; VAGUS NERVE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 70349424730     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.06.029     Document Type: Article

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