Thalamic Function - Beyond a Simple Relay

• Main Author: William Martin Connelly (auth)
• Other Authors: Vincenzo Crunelli (auth), W. Martin Usrey (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; sensory processing; corticothalalmic; Thalamus; thalamocortical
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The thalamus is often described as a relay. Typified by sensory pathways, this concept leads to thalamic nuclei being viewed as areas that passively streams information from a single source to the cortex, without affecting the nature of that information. However, diverse intrathalamic connections, t...