How do mammillary body inputs contribute to anterior thalamic function?

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 54, Issue , 2015, Pages 108-119

  Dillingham, Christopher M ^a   Frizzati, Aura ^a   Nelson, Andrew J D ^a   Vann, Seralynne D ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anterior thalamic nucleus; Diencephalon; Gudden's tegmental nuclei; Learning and memory; Mammillary bodies; Mammillothalamic tract

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONNECTOME; HUMAN; LATERAL MAMMILLARY NUCLEUS; MAMMILLARY BODY; MEDIAL MAMMILLARY NUCLEUS; MESENCEPHALON; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; SUBICULUM; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR THALAMIC NUCLEI; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAMMILLARY BODIES; MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 84930616703     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.07.025     Document Type: Review

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