Impaired head direction cell representation in the anterodorsal thalamus after lesions of the retrosplenial cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 5289-5302

  Clark, Benjamin J ^a   Bassett, Joshua P ^a   Wang, Sarah S ^a   Taube, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERODORSAL THALAMUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; LONG EVANS RAT; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; CUES; DARKNESS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; HEAD; MICROELECTRODES; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPACE PERCEPTION; THALAMUS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77950980233     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3380-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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