ArticleCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2021
Exploring communication between the thalamus and cognitive control-related functional networks in the cerebral cortex.
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- Distinct thalamic functional connectivity and volume patterns across focal epilepsies in children: A multimodal neuroimaging study.Epilepsia · 2026Article
- Thalamic regulation of reinforcement learning strategies across prefrontal-striatal networks.Nature communications · 2025Article
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- The thalamic covariance network is associated with cognitive deficits in patients with cerebral small vascular disease.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2024Article
- The impact of the human thalamus on brain-wide information processing.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2023Review
- Modulation of prefrontal couplings by prior belief-related responses in ventromedial prefrontal cortex.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Thalamic regulation of frontal interactions in human cognitive flexibility.PLoS computational biology · 2022Article
- Endocannabinoid signaling regulates post-operative delirium through glutamatergic mediodorsal thalamus-prelimbic prefrontal cortical projection.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
It has been suggested by multiple studies (postmortem studies, invasive animal studies, and diffusion tensor imaging in the human brain) that the thalamus is important for communication among cortical regions. Many functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies, including noninvasive and whole-brain studies, have reported thalamic co-activation with several cognitive control-related cortical systems. This forms a complex network that may be important for advanced cognitive control-related processes, such as working memory and attention. Nevertheless, how the thalamus communicates with the cognitive control-related network in the intact human brain is an essential question and needs further investigation. To address this question, we conducted a study using dynamic functional connectivity analysis and effective connectivity analysis based on fMRI data from young, healthy adult participants. The results showed that the middle thalamus exhibited both high in- and out-degree regarding the complex network related to cognitive control during both rest and task conditions. Furthermore, intrinsic communication via the middle thalamic regions showed dynamically co-varying patterns, and the thalamic regions showed high flexibility in dynamic community analysis. These results indicated that the mid-thalamic region is an important station for communication between nodes in cognitive control-related networks.
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