title: Working together: basal ganglia pathways in action selection.
abstract: Jin, Tecuapetla, and Costa combined in vivo electrophysiology with optogenetic-identification to examine firing in multiple basal ganglia nuclei during rapid motor sequences. Their results support a model of basal ganglia function in which co-activation of the direct and indirect pathways facilitate appropriate, while inhibiting competing, motor programs.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Danielle M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Friend
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, MD, USA; National Institute of Drug Abuse, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: lex.kravitz@nih.gov.
authors.forename: Alexxai V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Kravitz
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001479:Basal Ganglia / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D051379:Mice; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology*; D009434:Neural Pathways / Q000502:physiology; D062308:Optogenetics