Dysregulated neuronal activity patterns implicate corticostriatal circuit dysfunction in multiple rodent models of Huntington's disease

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAY 2011, 2011, Pages

  Miller, Benjamin R ^a,b   Walker, Adam G ^a,c   Barton, Scott J ^a   Rebec, George V ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral electrophysiology; Bursting; Mouse models of huntington's disease; Spike synchrony; Striatal local field potentials

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORTICOSTRIATAL CIRCUIT DYSFUNCTION; HISTOLOGY; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; IN VIVO STUDY; LOCAL FIELD POTENTIAL; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; SPIKE; WILD TYPE;

EID: 84856176740     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2011.00026     Document Type: Article

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