Delta frequency optogenetic stimulation of the thalamic nucleus reuniens is sufficient to produce working memory deficits: Relevance to schizophrenia

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 77, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1098-1107

  Duan, Aranda R ^a   Varela, Carmen ^b   Zhang, Yuchun ^a   Shen, Yinghua ^b   Xiong, Lealia ^b   Wilson, Matthew A ^b   Lisman, John ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Channelrhodopsin; Delta; Optogenetics; Reuniens; Schizophrenia; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL T TYPE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; RHODOPSIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA RHYTHM; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; WORKING MEMORY; ANIMAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG EVANS RAT; MEMORY DISORDERS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; DELTA RHYTHM; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDLINE THALAMIC NUCLEI; OPTOGENETICS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 84929705651     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.01.020     Document Type: Review

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