Imaging neuronal populations in behaving rodents: Paradigms for studying neural circuits underlying behavior in the mammalian cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 45, 2013, Pages 17631-17640

  Chen, Jerry L ^a   Andermann, Mark L ^b   Keck, Tara ^c   Xu, Ning Long ^d   Ziv, Yaniv ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME LAPSE IMAGING; TREADMILL; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; LEARNING; MICE; NERVE NET; NEURONS; RATS;

EID: 84887111160     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3255-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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