Projections of the central medial nucleus of the thalamus in the rat: Node in cortical, striatal and limbic forebrain circuitry

Neuroscience

Volumn 219, Issue , 2012, Pages 120-136

  Vertes, R P ^a   Hoover, W B ^a   Rodriguez, J J ^b,c,d  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Basolateral nucleus of amygdala; Insular cortex; Limbic thalamus; Medial prefrontal cortex; Nucleus accumbens; Striatum; Working memory

Indexed keywords

LEUKOAGGLUTININ;

AFFECT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CLAUSTRUM; COGNITION; CORPUS STRIATUM; EFFERENT NERVE; FOREBRAIN; INSULA; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OLFACTORY BULB; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERIRHINAL CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SUBCORTEX; THALAMUS MEDIALIS CENTRALIS NUCLEUS; VISCERAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; INTRALAMINAR THALAMIC NUCLEI; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84864010668     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.04.067     Document Type: Article

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