Implications of functional anatomy on information processing in the deep cerebellar nuclei

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue NOV, 2009, Pages

  Baumel, Yuval ^a   Jacobson, Gilad A ^b   Cohen, Dana ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cerebellar nuclei; Chronic recording; Harmaline; Inferior olive; Rebound firing; Short term depression; Temporal patterns

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952737371     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.03.014.2009     Document Type: Review

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