Timing tasks synchronize cerebellar and frontal ramping activity and theta oscillations: Implications for cerebellar stimulation in diseases of impaired cognition

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 6, Issue JAN, 2016, Pages

  Parker, Krystal L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Eyeblink conditioning; Interval timing; Prefrontal cortex; Ramping activity; Theta oscillations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONDITIONING; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EYELID REFLEX; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; MEDIAL FRONTAL CORTEX; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84964677474     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00190     Document Type: Article

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