Press-while-licking Task

Encyclopedia of Movement Disorders

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 470-473

  Stanford, J A ^a   Bethel Brown, C S ^a   Fowler, S C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Drugs; Force; Forelimb; Isometric; Motor control; Muscle; Operant; Parkinson's; Preclinical; Rats; Tremor

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052400762     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374105-9.00278-1     Document Type: Chapter

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