Simultaneous top-down modulation of the primary somatosensory cortex and thalamic nuclei during active tactile discrimination

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 4076-4093

  Pais Vieira, Miguel ^a   Lebedev, Mikhail A ^a,c   Wiest, Michael C ^d   Nicolelis, Miguel A L ^a,b,c,e  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^e Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute for Neuroscience of Natal   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUSCIMOL;

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTICIPATORY ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; GROOMING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SNIFFING; SPIKE WAVE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FACIAL NERVE INJURIES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GABA-A RECEPTOR AGONISTS; LINEAR MODELS; MUSCIMOL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMIC NUCLEI; TOUCH;

EID: 84874633062     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1659-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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