Medial auditory thalamic input to the lateral pontine nuclei is necessary for auditory eyeblink conditioning

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 92-98

  Halverson, Hunter E ^a   Freeman, John H ^a  

^a E11 SSH   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Cerebellum; Eyeblink conditioning; Medial auditory thalamus; Savings

Indexed keywords

MUSCIMOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BLINKING; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CANNULA; CEREBELLUM; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EYELID REFLEX; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; RAT; RESPONSE TIME; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CATHETERIZATION; CONDITIONING, EYELID; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROSHOCK; GABA AGONISTS; MALE; MEMORY; MICROELECTRODES; MUSCIMOL; PONS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 74649086764     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2009.08.008     Document Type: Article

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