Minimal driving of hippocampal theta by the supramammillary nucleus during water maze learning

Hippocampus

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1074-1081

  Ruan, Ming ^a   Young, Calvin K ^a,b   Mcnaughton, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Directed transfer function; Hippocampus; Learning; Space; Supramammillary nucleus; Theta

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTED TRANSFER FUNCTION; DRIVE; HIPPOCAMPUS THETA RHYTHM; MALE; MAMMILLARY BODY; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPECTROSCOPY; SUPRAMAMMILLARY NUCLEUS; WATER MAZE;

ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANESTHETICS, DISSOCIATIVE; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; HIPPOCAMPUS; KETAMINE; MALE; MAMILLARY BODIES; MAZE LEARNING; MEDETOMIDINE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 80053111936     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20821     Document Type: Article

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