Role of the lateral habenula in shaping context-dependent locomotor activity during cognitive tasks

NeuroReport

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 276-280

  Wang, Zhengda ^a   Wang, Li ^a   Yamamoto, Ryo ^a   Sugai, Tokio ^a   Kato, Nobuo ^a  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cognition; depression; habenula; rats

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEAR; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HABENULA; HYPERACTIVITY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHOCK;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; FEAR; HABENULA; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SWIMMING;

EID: 84875821777     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: 1473558X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e32835ee1e8     Document Type: Article

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