Unstable neurons underlie a stable learned behavior

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1665-1671

  Liberti, William A ^a,b   Markowitz, Jeffrey E ^a,g   Perkins, L Nathan ^a,b   Liberti, Derek C ^c   Leman, Daniel P ^a   Guitchounts, Grigori ^d   Velho, Tarciso ^e,f   Kotton, Darrell N ^c   Lois, Carlos ^e   Gardner, Timothy J ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

^g HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CONDITIONING; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERNEURON; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STEREOTYPY; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; FINCH; MALE; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; SLEEP; VOCALIZATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; FINCHES; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; SLEEP; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84990988094     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.4405     Document Type: Article

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