The ventral midline thalamus contributes to strategy shifting in a memory task requiring both prefrontal cortical and hippocampal functions

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 8772-8783

  Cholvin, Thibault ^a   Loureiro, Michaël ^a   Cassel, Raphaelle ^a   Cosquer, Brigitte ^a   Geiger, Karine ^a   De Sa Nogueira, David ^a   Raingard, Hélène ^a   Robelin, Laura ^a   Kelche, Christian ^a   de Vasconcelos, Anne Pereira ^a   Cassel, Jean Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUSCIMOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; GABA-A RECEPTOR AGONISTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MUSCIMOL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; THALAMUS;

EID: 84877724535     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0771-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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