Prefrontal projections to the thalamic reticular nucleus form a unique circuit for attentional mechanisms

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 28, 2006, Pages 7348-7361

  Zikopoulos, Basilis ^a   Barbas, Helen ^a,b,c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Inhibitory control; Laminar origin of projections; Macaque brain; Presynaptic specificity

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; PARVALBUMIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOPOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACACA; NERVE FIBER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SYNAPSE; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AXONS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACACA MULATTA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDIODORSAL THALAMIC NUCLEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SYNAPSES; THALAMIC NUCLEI; VENTRAL THALAMIC NUCLEI; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 33746092121     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5511-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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