Projection specificity in heterogeneous locus coeruleus cell populations: Implications for learning and memory

Learning and Memory

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 444-451

  Uematsu, Akira ^a   Tan, Bao Zhen ^a   Johansen, Joshua P ^a,b  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NORADRENALIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CELL POPULATION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY; EMOTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; LOCUS CERULEUS; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; LEARNING; LOCUS COERULEUS; MEMORY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS;

EID: 84942082267     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.037283.114     Document Type: Review

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