ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2002
The thalamus as a monitor of motor outputs.
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- Functional mapping of sensorimotor activation in the human thalamus at 9.4 Tesla.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Disentangling the influences of multiple thalamic nuclei on prefrontal cortex and cognitive control.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2021Review
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- Volume loss in the deep gray matter and thalamic subnuclei: a longitudinal study on disability progression in multiple sclerosis.Journal of neurology · 2020Article
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- Using Dual-Site Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to Probe Connectivity between the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex and Ipsilateral Primary Motor Cortex in Humans.Brain sciences · 2019Article
- Resting parasympathetic dysfunction predicts prosocial helping deficits in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2018Article
- Functional Diversity of Thalamic Reticular Subnetworks.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2018Article
- A Framework for Intelligence and Cortical Function Based on Grid Cells in the Neocortex.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2018Article
- Genetic Reporters of Neuronal Activity: c-Fos and G-CaMP6.Methods in enzymology · 2018Article
- Learning Task-Related Activities From Independent Local-Field-Potential Components Across Motor Cortex Layers.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2018Article
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Abstract
Many of the ascending pathways to the thalamus have branches involved in movement control. In addition, the recently defined, rich innervation of 'higher' thalamic nuclei (such as the pulvinar) from pyramidal cells in layer five of the neocortex also comes from branches of long descending axons that supply motor structures. For many higher thalamic nuclei the clue to understanding the messages that are relayed to the cortex will depend on knowing the nature of these layer five motor outputs and on defining how messages from groups of functionally distinct output types are combined as inputs to higher cortical areas. Current evidence indicates that many and possibly all thalamic relays to the neocortex are about instructions that cortical and subcortical neurons are contributing to movement control. The perceptual functions of the cortex can thus be seen to represent abstractions from ongoing motor instructions.
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