Connecting the dots of the cerebro-cerebellar role in cognitive function: Neuronal pathways for cerebellar modulation of dopamine release in the prefrontal cortex

Synapse

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1204-1212

  Rogers, Tiffany D ^a   Dickson, Price E ^a   Heck, Detlef H ^b   Goldowitz, Dan ^c   Mittleman, Guy ^a   Blaha, Charles D ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amperometry; Cerebellum; DA; Dentate nucleus; Thalamus; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; KYNURENIC ACID; LIDOCAINE; URETHAN;

AMPEROMETRY; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE NUCLEUS; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFUSION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; DOPAMINE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 80052378660     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: 10982396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.20960     Document Type: Article

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