Differential involvement of excitatory and inhibitory neurons of cat motor cortex in coincident spike activity related to behavioral context

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 8048-8056

  Putrino, David ^a,b   Brown, Emery N ^a,b   Mastaglia, Frank L ^c   Ghosh, Soumya ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; IMPLANTATION; LIMB MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITTING; SPIKE WAVE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RATS; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 77953500861     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0770-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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