Diversity and complexity in the pyramidal tract projectome

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 63-

  Shepherd, Gordon M G ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT;

EID: 84891035020     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3469-c2     Document Type: Letter

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