Calcium imaging of basal forebrain activity during innate and learned behaviors
The basal forebrain (BF) plays crucial roles in arousal, attention, and memory, and its impairment is associated with a variety of cognitive deficits. The BF consists of cholinergic, GABAergic, and glutamatergic neurons. Electrical or optogenetic stimulation of BF cholinergic neurons enhances cortic...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2016-05-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Neural Circuits |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncir.2016.00036/full |