Inactivating the activated: identifying functions of specific neural networks.

abstract

• Manipulation of the neurons required for a specific behavior can be difficult, but is required for proof of causality. A clever technique now allows inactivation of only the subset of neurons that have been recently active. 2009 Nature America, Inc.

authors

• Smith, Rachel

published proceedings

• Nat Neurosci

author list (cited authors)

• Smith, R. J., & Aston-Jones, G.

citation count

• 0

complete list of authors

• Smith, Rachel J||Aston-Jones, Gary

publication date

• August 2009

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• Nature Neuroscience  Journal

keywords

• Animals
• COCAINE
• Cocaine-Related Disorders
• Daunorubicin
• Dopamine Uptake Inhibitors
• Humans
• Motor Activity
• Nerve Net
• Neurons
• Nucleus Accumbens
• Proto-Oncogene Proteins C-fos
• Rats

PubMed Central ID

• 19636350

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1038/nn0809-965

start page

• 965

end page

• 966

volume

• 12

issue

• 8

URL

• https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0809-965