The retrosplenial cortex: Intrinsic connectivity and connections with the (para)hippocampal region in the rat. An interactive connectome

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Sugar, Jørgen ^a   Witter, Menno P ^a   van Strien, Niels M ^a   Cappaert, Natalie L M ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Connectome; Hippocampal formation; Interactive; Parahippocampal region; Retrosplenial cortex; Tract tracing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONNECTOME; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; RAT; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX;

EID: 84994000079     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2011.00007     Document Type: Review

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