Thalamic pathways underlying prefrontal cortex-medial temporal lobe oscillatory interactions

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 3-12

  Ketz, Nicholas A ^a   Jensen, Ole ^b   O'Reilly, Randall C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; BETA RHYTHM; HUMAN; MEMORY; NEUROSCIENCE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULVINAR; REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; THETA RHYTHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN WAVES; HUMANS; MEMORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS;

EID: 84925697799     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: 1878108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2014.09.007     Document Type: Review

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