Olfactory processing: a time and place for everything

Curr Biol. 1998 Apr 9;8(8):R282-3. doi: 10.1016/s0960-9822(98)70173-3.

Abstract

The behavioral effects of pharmacologically desynchronizing neuronal firing in the brain of the honeybee provide new evidence that the oscillatory synchronization of neuronal activity plays an important role in fine olfactory discrimination.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Bees
  • GABA Antagonists / pharmacology
  • Olfactory Receptor Neurons / physiology
  • Picrotoxin / pharmacology
  • Smell / physiology*
  • Time Factors

Substances

  • GABA Antagonists
  • Picrotoxin