Some certainty for the "zone of uncertainty"? Exploring the function of the zona incerta

Neuroscience

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-15

  Mitrofanis, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

arousal; attention; locomotion; Parkinson disease; visceral activity

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BASAL GANGLION; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN STEM; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIENCEPHALON; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LOCOMOTION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CORD; ZONA INCERTA;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSTURE; PROPRIOCEPTION; SUBTHALAMUS;

EID: 9244261625     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2004.08.017     Document Type: Review

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