Functional Connections of Cortical Areas : a New View from the Thalamus / / S. Murray Sherman and R.W. Guillery

• Autore: Sherman S. Murray
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2013; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (299 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.8
• Soggetto topico: Thalamus - Physiology; Cerebral cortex - Physiology
• Soggetto non controllato: NEUROSCIENCE/General
• Altri autori: GuilleryR. W
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Brief Contents; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Chapter 1. An Introduction to Thalamocortical Pathways; 1.1 An Overall View of the Thalamus and Cortex in Relation to the Rest of the Brain; 1.2 Thalamocortical Connections; 1.3 Tracing the Message; 1.4 An Overall Summary of Some of the Major Points; Chapter 2. Cell and Synaptic Properties; 2.1 Intrinsic Cell Properties; 2.2 Synaptic Properties; Chapter 3. The Basic Organization of Cortex and Thalamus; 3.1 The Cortex; 3.2 The Thalamus; 3.3 The Thalamic Reticular Nucleus; 3.4 Outstanding Questions ; Chapter 4. Classification of Afferents in Thalamus and Cortex 4.1 Classifying Glutamatergic Afferents; 4.2 Nonglutamatergic Afferents; 4.3 Concluding Remarks; 4.4 Outstanding Questions; Chapter 5. First and Higher Order Thalamic Relays; 5.1 Evidence for Distinguishing First and Higher Order Thalamic Relays; 5.2 Some Differences between First and Higher Order Relays; 5.3 Developmental and Evolutionary Differences; 5.4 Role of Higher Order Relays in Corticocortical Communication; 5.5 Concluding Remarks; 5.6 Outstanding Questions; Chapter 6. The Dual Nature of the Thalamic Input to Cortex ; 6.1 A Brief View of the Phylogenetic Origins of Thalamocortical Inputs 6.2 Driver/Class 1 Afferents to the Thalamus Are Branching Axons; 6.3 Efference Copies and Forward Models; 6.4 Overall Conclusions about the Branching Driver Axons; 6.5 Outstanding Questions; Chapter 7. Linking the Body and the World to the Thalamus; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 The Inputs to Thalamus; 7.3 Outstanding Questions; Chapter 8. The Inputs to the Cortex from the Thalamus and the Cortical Descending Outputs; 8.1 Early Studies of Thalamocortical Relationships; 8.2 More Recent Views of the Thalamocortical Pathways ; 8.3 The Topography of Thalamocortical Projections 8.4 Different Types of Thalamocortical Projection; 8.5 Cortical Outputs; 8.6 Outstanding Questions; Chapter 9. Thalamocortical Links to the Rest of the Brain and the World; 9.1 A Brief Overview; 9.2 First Order and Higher Order Relays; 9.3 Identifying the Drivers and Modulators; 9.4 Reading the Message; 9.5 The Thalamic Gate; 9.6 The Motor Branches; 9.7 Cortical Areas Act through Their Connections with Lower Motor Centers; 9.8 The Functional Capacities of Cortical Areas; 9.9 Comparing Two Models of Thalamocortical Functional Relationships ; 9.10 Examples of How the Functions of Particular Pathways Can Be Analyzed in Terms of the Organizational Principles Summarized So Far 9.11 Relating Thalamocortical Connectivity Patterns to Action, Perception, and Cognition; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This study shows new ways of thinking about how the brain relates to the world, to cognition, and to behaviour. Based on foundations previously established it considers the implications of these ground rules for thalamic inputs, thalamocortical connections, and cortical outputs. The book argues that functional and structural analyses of pathways connecting thalamus and cortex point beyond these to lower centres and through them to the body and the world.
• Titolo autorizzato: Functional Connections of Cortical Areas
• ISBN: 0-262-31500-9; 0-262-31499-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809052603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II