Back to front: Cerebellar connections and interactions with the prefrontal cortex

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Watson, Thomas C ^a,b,c   Becker, Nadine ^a   Apps, Richard ^a   Jones, Matthew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Unité Mixte de Recherche 8246   (France)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Coherence; Fastigial nucleus; Prefrontal cortex; Prelimbic cortex; Theta

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CEREBELLUM; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FASTIGIAL NUCLEUS; LOCOMOTION; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; SPIKE WAVE; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84893551304     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00004     Document Type: Article

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