Theta sequences are essential for internally generated hippocampal firing fields

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 282-288

  Wang, Yingxue ^a   Romani, Sandro ^a,b   Lustig, Brian ^a,c   Leonardo, Anthony ^a   Pastalkova, Eva ^a  

^a Janelia Research Campus   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; HIPPOCAMPAL FIRING FIELD; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY ANALYSIS; THETA RHYTHM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; LONG EVANS RAT; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; MUSCIMOL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; GABA-A RECEPTOR AGONISTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY, EPISODIC; MUSCIMOL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PERIODICITY; RATS, LONG-EVANS; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 84923103877     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3904     Document Type: Article

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