Thalamocortical interactions in cognition and disease: The mediodorsal and anterior thalamic nuclei

Brain iron deposition is linked with cognitive severity in Parkinson’s disease

(2020) George Edward Calver Thomas et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY NEUROSURGERY AND PSYCHIATRY

Differential Roles of Mediodorsal Nucleus of the Thalamus and Prefrontal Cortex in Decision-Making and State Representation in a Cognitive Control Task Measuring Deficits in Schizophrenia

(2020) Adele L. DeNicola et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Organization of primate amygdalar–thalamic pathways for emotions

(2020) Clare Timbie et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

An Ultra-Sensitive Step-Function Opsin for Minimally Invasive Optogenetic Stimulation in Mice and Macaques

(2020) Xin Gong et al.   NEURON

A gravity-based three-dimensional compass in the mouse brain

(2020) Dora E. Angelaki et al.   Nature Communications

Mediodorsal Thalamus Contributes to the Timing of Instrumental Actions

(2020) Nicholas Lusk et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Deschloroclozapine, a potent and selective chemogenetic actuator enables rapid neuronal and behavioral modulations in mice and monkeys

(2020) Yuji Nagai et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Corticocortical and Thalamocortical Changes in Functional Connectivity and White Matter Structural Integrity after Reward-Guided Learning of Visuospatial Discriminations in Rhesus Monkeys

(2020) Vassilis Pelekanos et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Mediodorsal and Ventromedial Thalamus Engage Distinct L1 Circuits in the Prefrontal Cortex

(2020) Paul G. Anastasiades et al.   NEURON

Proximal perimeter encoding in the rat rostral thalamus

(2019) Pawel Matulewicz et al.   Scientific Reports

Dissociating thalamic alterations in alcohol use disorder defines specificity of Korsakoff's syndrome

(2019) Shailendra Segobin et al.   BRAIN

Topographic organization of connections between prefrontal cortex and mediodorsal thalamus: Evidence for a general principle of indirect thalamic pathways between directly connected cortical areas

(2019) Jessica M. Phillips et al.   NEUROIMAGE

A Model-Based Reassessment of the Three-Dimensional Tuning of Head Direction Cells in Rats

(2019) Jean Laurens et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Considering the Evidence for Anterior and Laterodorsal Thalamic Nuclei as Higher Order Relays to Cortex

(2019) Brook A. L. Perry et al.   Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience

A repeated molecular architecture across thalamic pathways

(2019) James W. Phillips et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Why Isn’t the Head Direction System Necessary for Direction? Lessons From the Lateral Mammillary Nuclei

(2019) Christopher M. Dillingham et al.   Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Abnormal distraction and load‐specific connectivity during working memory in cognitively normal Parkinson's disease

(2019) Deborah L. Harrington et al.   HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING

Thalamic nuclei in frontotemporal dementia: Mediodorsal nucleus involvement is universal but pulvinar atrophy is unique to C9orf72

(2019) Martina Bocchetta et al.   HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING

Changes in thalamic dopamine innervation in a progressive Parkinson's disease model in monkeys

(2019) Mariana H.G. Monje et al.   MOVEMENT DISORDERS

Thalamic Control of Cognition and Social Behavior Via Regulation of Gamma-Aminobutyric Acidergic Signaling and Excitation/Inhibition Balance in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex

(2018) Brielle R. Ferguson et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

The Mediodorsal Thalamus: An Essential Partner of the Prefrontal Cortex for Cognition

(2018) Sébastien Parnaudeau et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Cellular components and circuitry of the presubiculum and its functional role in the head direction system

(2018) Jean Simonnet et al.   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

Macaque parvocellular mediodorsal thalamus: dissociable contributions to learning and adaptive decision-making

(2018) Subhojit Chakraborty et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

A dual-axis rotation rule for updating the head direction cell reference frame during movement in three dimensions

(2018) Hector J. I. Page et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Roles of prefrontal cortex and mediodorsal thalamus in task engagement and behavioral flexibility

(2018) Tobias Marton et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Anterior thalamic excitation and feed-forward inhibition of presubicular neurons projecting to medial entorhinal cortex

(2018) Mérie Nassar et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Fronto-thalamic Architectures for Cognitive Algorithms

(2018) Michael M. Halassa   NEURON

Reciprocal Circuits Linking the Prefrontal Cortex with Dorsal and Ventral Thalamic Nuclei

(2018) David P. Collins et al.   NEURON

Change of information represented by thalamic mediodorsal neurons during the delay period

(2018) Yumiko Watanabe et al.   NEUROREPORT

Input Convergence, Synaptic Plasticity and Functional Coupling Across Hippocampal-Prefrontal-Thalamic Circuits

(2018) Lezio S. Bueno-Junior et al.   Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Thalamocortical and corticothalamic pathways differentially contribute to goal-directed behaviors in the rat

(2018) Fabien Alcaraz et al.   eLife

Mediodorsal thalamus is required for discrete phases of goal-directed behavior in macaques

(2018) Evan Wicker et al.   eLife

Cognitive Functions and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Involving the Prefrontal Cortex and Mediodorsal Thalamus

(2018) Zakaria Ouhaz et al.   Frontiers in Neuroscience

Thalamic atrophy in frontotemporal dementia — Not just a C9orf72 problem

(2018) Martina Bocchetta et al.   NeuroImage-Clinical

The age of onset and evolution of Braak tangle stage and Thal amyloid pathology of Alzheimer’s disease in individuals with Down syndrome

(2018) Yvonne S. Davidson et al.   Acta Neuropathologica Communications

The retrosplenial-parietal network and reference frame coordination for spatial navigation.

(2018) Benjamin J. Clark et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

The Regulatory Role of the Human Mediodorsal Thalamus

(2018) Giulio Pergola et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Optimal dynamic coding by mixed-dimensionality neurons in the head-direction system of bats

(2018) Arseny Finkelstein et al.   Nature Communications

Anterior thalamic nuclei, but not retrosplenial cortex, lesions abolish latent inhibition in rats.

(2018) Andrew J. D. Nelson et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

A specific olfactory cortico-thalamic pathway contributing to sampling performance during odor reversal learning

(2018) Emmanuelle Courtiol et al.   Brain Structure & Function

Encoding of 3D head direction information in the human brain

(2018) Misun Kim et al.   HIPPOCAMPUS

Three-dimensional tuning of head direction cells in rats

(2018) Michael E. Shinder et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Occurrence of Hippocampal Ripples is Associated with Activity Suppression in the Mediodorsal Thalamic Nucleus

(2018) Mingyu Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

The Cognitive Thalamus as a Gateway to Mental Representations

(2018) Mathieu Wolff et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Thalamic regulation of switching between cortical representations enables cognitive flexibility

(2018) Rajeev V. Rikhye et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Colocalization of Tectal Inputs With Amygdala-Projecting Neurons in the Macaque Pulvinar

(2018) Catherine Elorette et al.   Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Striking reduction in neurons and glial cells in anterior thalamic nuclei of older patients with Down syndrome

(2018) James C. Perry et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING

Do the rat anterior thalamic nuclei contribute to behavioural flexibility?

(2018) Lisa Kinnavane et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Anterior thalamic nuclei lesions have a greater impact than mammillothalamic tract lesions on the extended hippocampal system

(2017) Brook A. L. Perry et al.   HIPPOCAMPUS

Advances in optogenetic and chemogenetic methods to study brain circuits in non-human primates

(2017) Adriana Galvan et al.   JOURNAL OF NEURAL TRANSMISSION

Thalamic amplification of cortical connectivity sustains attentional control

(2017) L. Ian Schmitt et al.   NATURE

Thalamic functions in distributed cognitive control

(2017) Michael M. Halassa et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Thalamic projections sustain prefrontal activity during working memory maintenance

(2017) Scott S Bolkan et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

The Down syndrome brain in the presence and absence of fibrillar β-amyloidosis

(2017) Tiina Annus et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING

Asymmetric cross-hemispheric connections link the rat anterior thalamic nuclei with the cortex and hippocampal formation

(2017) Mathias L. Mathiasen et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Activity dependent feedback inhibition may maintain head direction signals in mouse presubiculum

(2017) Jean Simonnet et al.   Nature Communications

Transformation of the head-direction signal into a spatial code

(2017) Adrien Peyrache et al.   Nature Communications

The pattern of amyloid accumulation in the brains of adults with Down syndrome

(2016) Tiina Annus et al.   Alzheimers & Dementia

Thalamic pathology and memory loss in early Alzheimer’s disease: moving the focus from the medial temporal lobe to Papez circuit

(2016) John P. Aggleton et al.   BRAIN

Lesions of the ventral midline thalamus produce deficits in reversal learning and attention on an odor texture set shifting task

(2016) Stephanie B. Linley et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Which way and how far? Tracking of translation and rotation information for human path integration

(2016) Elizabeth R. Chrastil et al.   HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING

Individual mediodorsal thalamic neurons project to multiple areas of the rat prefrontal cortex: A single neuron-tracing study using virus vectors

(2016) Eriko Kuramoto et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

The Human Retrosplenial Cortex and Thalamus Code Head Direction in a Global Reference Frame

(2016) Jonathan P. Shine et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Neural Representation of Odor-Guided Behavior in the Rat Olfactory Thalamus

(2016) Emmanuelle Courtiol et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

An independent, landmark-dominated head-direction signal in dysgranular retrosplenial cortex

(2016) Pierre-Yves Jacob et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Gravity orientation tuning in macaque anterior thalamus

(2016) Jean Laurens et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Anatomical organization of presubicular head-direction circuits

(2016) Patricia Preston-Ferrer et al.   eLife

Critical role for the mediodorsal thalamus in permitting rapid reward-guided updating in stochastic reward environments

(2016) Subhojit Chakraborty et al.   eLife

Evidence for Mediodorsal Thalamus and Prefrontal Cortex Interactions during Cognition in Macaques

(2015) Philip G. F. Browning et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Coherence among Head Direction Cells before Eye Opening in Rat Pups

(2015) Tale L. Bjerknes et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A Goal Direction Signal in the Human Entorhinal/Subicular Region

(2015) Martin J. Chadwick et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Passive Transport Disrupts Grid Signals in the Parahippocampal Cortex

(2015) Shawn S. Winter et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Connectivity between the superior colliculus and the amygdala in humans and macaque monkeys: virtual dissection with probabilistic DTI tractography

(2015) Robert D. Rafal et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Head-Directional Tuning and Theta Modulation of Anatomically Identified Neurons in the Presubiculum

(2015) J. J. Tukker et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Visual Landmark Information Gains Control of the Head Direction Signal at the Lateral Mammillary Nuclei

(2015) R. M. Yoder et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

A Critical Role for the Anterior Thalamus in Directing Attention to Task-Relevant Stimuli

(2015) N. F. Wright et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

The Mediodorsal Thalamus Drives Feedforward Inhibition in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex via Parvalbumin Interneurons

(2015) K. Delevich et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Pathways for Emotions: Specializations in the Amygdalar, Mediodorsal Thalamic, and Posterior Orbitofrontal Network

(2015) C. Timbie et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Internally organized mechanisms of the head direction sense

(2015) Adrien Peyrache et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Recollection and familiarity in the human thalamus

(2015) Giovanni Augusto Carlesimo et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Functional heterogeneity of the limbic thalamus: From hippocampal to cortical functions

(2015) Mathieu Wolff et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

What does a comparison of the alcoholic Korsakoff syndrome and thalamic infarction tell us about thalamic amnesia?

(2015) Michael D. Kopelman   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

The role of the thalamus in schizophrenia from a neuroimaging perspective

(2015) Giulio Pergola et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Why do lesions in the rodent anterior thalamic nuclei cause such severe spatial deficits?

(2015) John P. Aggleton et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

The mediodorsal thalamus as a higher order thalamic relay nucleus important for learning and decision-making

(2015) Anna S. Mitchell   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Limbic circuitry of the midline thalamus

(2015) Robert P. Vertes et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Disruption of the head direction cell network impairs the parahippocampal grid cell signal

(2015) S. S. Winter et al.   SCIENCE

Evidence for spatially-responsive neurons in the rostral thalamus

(2015) Maciej M. Jankowski et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Anterior thalamic lesions reduce spine density in both hippocampal CA1 and retrosplenial cortex, but enrichment rescues CA1 spines only

(2014) Bruce C. Harland et al.   HIPPOCAMPUS

Three-dimensional head-direction coding in the bat brain

(2014) Arseny Finkelstein et al.   NATURE

A stereological study of the mediodorsal thalamic nucleus in Down syndrome

(2014) A.S. Karlsen et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Looking beyond the hippocampus: old and new neurological targets for understanding memory disorders

(2014) J. P. Aggleton   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Nucleus reuniens of the thalamus contains head direction cells

(2014) Maciej M Jankowski et al.   eLife

Dissociation of recognition and recency memory judgments after anterior thalamic nuclei lesions in rats.

(2013) Julie R. Dumont et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

A role for anterior thalamic nuclei in contextual fear memory

(2013) A. Marchand et al.   Brain Structure & Function

A role for anterior thalamic nuclei in affective cognition: Interaction with environmental conditions

(2013) Alexandra Dupire et al.   HIPPOCAMPUS

Segregation of parallel inputs to the anteromedial and anteroventral thalamic nuclei of the rat

(2013) Nicholas F. Wright et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Comparative anatomy of the prosubiculum, subiculum, presubiculum, postsubiculum, and parasubiculum in human, monkey, and rodent

(2013) Song-Lin Ding   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Grid cells require excitatory drive from the hippocampus

(2013) Tora Bonnevie et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Associative Learning Beyond the Medial Temporal Lobe: Many Actors on the Memory Stage

(2013) Giulio Pergola et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

The anterior thalamus is critical for overcoming interference in a context-dependent odor discrimination task.

(2012) L. Matthew Law et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

In vivo and post-mortem memory circuit integrity in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer’s disease

(2012) Michael Hornberger et al.   BRAIN

Drivers of the Primate Thalamus

(2012) Z. Rovo et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Vestibular and attractor network basis of the head direction cell signal in subcortical circuits

(2012) Benjamin J. Clark et al.   Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Both visual and idiothetic cues contribute to head direction cell stability during navigation along complex routes

(2011) Ryan M. Yoder et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Cosine Directional Tuning of Theta Cell Burst Frequencies: Evidence for Spatial Coding by Oscillatory Interference

(2011) A. C. Welday et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Theta-Modulated Head Direction Cells in the Rat Anterior Thalamus

(2011) M. Tsanov et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Reduction of Theta Rhythm Dissociates Grid Cell Spatial Periodicity from Directional Tuning

(2011) M. P. Brandon et al.   SCIENCE

The Spatial Periodicity of Grid Cells Is Not Sustained During Reduced Theta Oscillations

(2011) J. Koenig et al.   SCIENCE

Role of Thalamic Projection in NMDA Receptor-Induced Disruption of Cortical Slow Oscillation and Short-Term Plasticity

(2011) Tamás Kiss et al.   Frontiers in Psychiatry

Hippocampal-anterior thalamic pathways for memory: uncovering a network of direct and indirect actions

(2010) John P. Aggleton et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Delta oscillation and short-term plasticity in the rat medial prefrontal cortex: modelling NMDA hypofunction of schizophrenia

(2010) Tamás Kiss et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Parallel but separate inputs from limbic cortices to the mammillary bodies and anterior thalamic nuclei in the rat

(2010) Nicholas F. Wright et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Oscillatory Entrainment of Thalamic Neurons by Theta Rhythm in Freely Moving Rats

(2010) Marian Tsanov et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Medial Parietal Cortex Encodes Perceived Heading Direction in Humans

(2010) O. Baumann et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Impaired Head Direction Cell Representation in the Anterodorsal Thalamus after Lesions of the Retrosplenial Cortex

(2010) B. J. Clark et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Grid cells in pre- and parasubiculum

(2010) Charlotte N Boccara et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Evidence for the thalamic targets of the medial hypothalamic defensive system mediating emotional memory to predatory threats

(2010) Eduardo F. Carvalho-Netto et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MEMORY

Development of the Spatial Representation System in the Rat

(2010) R. F. Langston et al.   SCIENCE

Development of the Hippocampal Cognitive Map in Preweanling Rats

(2010) T. J. Wills et al.   SCIENCE

Boundary Vector Cells in the Subiculum of the Hippocampal Formation

(2009) C. Lever et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

What does the retrosplenial cortex do?

(2009) Seralynne D. Vann et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Neurocircuitry of Mood Disorders

(2009) Joseph L Price et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Laminar and modular organization of prefrontal projections to multiple thalamic nuclei

(2009) D. Xiao et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Brain Circuits for the Internal Monitoring of Movements

(2008) Marc A. Sommer et al.   Annual Review of Neuroscience

Population Vector Analysis of Primate Mediodorsal Thalamic Activity during Oculomotor Delayed-Response Performance

(2008) Y. Watanabe et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Dopamine Innervation in the Thalamus: Monkey versus Rat

(2008) M. A. Garcia-Cabezas et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Influence of boundary removal on the spatial representations of the medial entorhinal cortex

(2008) Francesco Savelli et al.   HIPPOCAMPUS

Hippocampus-independent phase precession in entorhinal grid cells

(2008) Torkel Hafting et al.   NATURE

Representation of Geometric Borders in the Entorhinal Cortex

(2008) Trygve Solstad et al.   SCIENCE