Shedding new light on the role of the basal ganglia-superior colliculus pathway in eye movements

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 717-725

  Shires, Joel ^a   Joshi, Siddhartha ^a   Basso, Michele A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AKINESIA; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; COGNITION; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYNDROME; EYE MOVEMENT; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HUMAN; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MEMORY; MOTOR SYSTEM; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; NONHUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA PARS RETICULATA; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; THALAMUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULI;

EID: 78651466467     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2010.08.008     Document Type: Review

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