Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

Hippocampal-prefrontal theta-gamma coupling during performance of a spatial working memory task

  • Makoto Tamura,
  • Timothy J. Spellman,
  • Andrew M. Rosen,
  • Joseph A. Gogos,
  • Joshua A. Gordon

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02108-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Theta- and gamma-frequency oscillatory synchrony correlates with spatial working memory performance. Here the authors report increases in theta-gamma cross-frequency coupling as a compensatory mechism associated with better working memory performance in models of cognitive dysfunction in mice.