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Thalamus

Related publications (110)

Leg muscle vibration modulates bodily self-consciousness: integration of proprioceptive, visual, and tactile signals

Olaf Blanke, Jane Aspell, Estelle Palluel

Behavioral studies have used visuo-tactile conflicts between a participant's body and a visually presented fake or virtual body to investigate the importance of bodily perception for self-consciousness (bodily self-consciousness). Illusory self-identificat ...

2011

In-vivo magnetic resonance imaging of the structural core of the Papez circuit in humans

Reto Meuli, Cristina Granziera, Nouchine Hadjikhani

Papez circuit is one of the major pathways of the limbic system, and it is involved in the control of memory and emotion. Structural and functional alterations have been reported in psychiatric, neurodegenerative, and epileptic diseases. Despite the clinic ...

2011

How vestibular stimulation interacts with illusory hand ownership

Olaf Blanke, Christophe Lopez, Bigna Lenggenhager

Artificial stimulation of the peripheral vestibular system has been shown to improve ownership of body parts in neurological patients, suggesting vestibular contributions to bodily self-consciousness. Here, we investigated whether galvanic vestibular stimu ...

Elsevier2010

BOLD responses to trigeminal nerve stimulation

Rolf Gruetter, Carl Petersen, Nathalie Just

The current study investigates a new model of barrel cortex activation using stimulation of the infraorbital branch of the trigeminal nerve. A robust and reproducible activation of the rat barrel cortex was obtained following trigeminal nerve stimulation. ...

2010

Long-range connectivity of mouse primary somatosensory barrel cortex

Bernard Schneider, Carl Petersen, Rachel Aronoff, Céline Matéo, Ferenc Mátyás

The primary somatosensory barrel cortex processes tactile vibrissae information, allowing rodents to actively perceive spatial and textural features of their immediate surroundings. Each whisker on the snout is individually represented in the neocortex by ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

Modeling the Gabaergic Action of Etomidate on the Thalamocortical System

Sean Lewis Hill

BACKGROUND: We have used a computational model of the thalamocortical system to investigate the effects of a GABAergic anesthetic (etomidate) on cerebral cortical and thalamic neuronal function. We examined the effects of phasic an tonic inhibition, as wel ...

2009

Post-Surgical Interval And Lesion Location Within The Limbic Thalamus Determine Extent Of Retrosplenial Cortex Immediate-Early Gene Hypoactivity

Guillaume Poirier

Four experiments examined the disruptive effects of selective lesions in limbic thalamic nuclei on retrosplenial cortex function, as characterized by striking changes in immediate-early gene activity. Major goals were to test the specificity of these retro ...

2009

Step-by-step: the effects of physical practice on the neural correlates of locomotion imagery revealed by fMRI

Silvio Ionta

Previous studies have shown that mental imagery is a suitable tool to study the progression of the effect of practice on brain activation. Nevertheless, there is still poor knowledge of changes in brain activation patterns during the very early stages of p ...

2009

Modeling the effects of midazolam on cortical and thalamic neurons

Sean Lewis Hill

Controversy exists regarding the site where anesthetics act in the brain to produce sedation and unconsciousness. Actions in the cerebral cortex and thalamus are likely, although the relative importance of each site is unclear. We used in computo modeling ...

2009

Breakdown of Effective Connectivity During Slow Wave Sleep: Investigating the Mechanism Underlying a Cortical Gate Using Large-Scale Modeling

Sean Lewis Hill

Esser SK, Hill S, Tononi G. Breakdown of effective connectivity during slow wave sleep: investigating the mechanism underlying a cortical gate using large-scale modeling. J Neurophysiol 102: 2096-2111, 2009. First published August 5, 2009; doi: 10.1152/jn. ...

2009

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