Dopamine - Glutamate Interactions in the Basal Ganglia

• Author(s): Susan Jones,
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Pages: 284
• ISBN_10: 1420088807
  ISBN_13: 9781420088809
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Medical / Anatomy , Science / Life Sciences / Cell Biology , Science / Life Sciences / General , Science / Life Sciences / Neuroscience ,

Description:... The basal ganglia are involved in complex brain functions, from voluntary movement control to learning and reward processing, and they are implicated in numerous neurological and psychiatric disorders. Information from the cerebral cortex and thalamus is conveyed to basal ganglia nuclei via glutamate release, while dopamine from the midbrain is rel