Transient Inactivation of the Thalamic Nucleus Reuniens and Rhomboid Nucleus Produces Deficits of a Working-Memory Dependent Tactile-Visual Conditional Discrimination Task

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 127, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 860-866

  Hallock, Henry L ^a   Wang, Arick ^a   Shaw, Crystal L ^a   Griffin, Amy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional discrimination; Hippocampal prefrontal circuit; Nucleus reuniens; Rhomboid nucleus; Working memory

Indexed keywords

MUSCIMOL;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HIPPOCAMPUS; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; RHOMBOID NUCLEUS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; T-MAZE TEST; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; THALAMIC NUCLEUS REUNIENS; TRAINING; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDLINE THALAMIC NUCLEI; MUSCIMOL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84890485607     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0034653     Document Type: Article

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