期刊
NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
卷 121, 期 -, 页码 60-74出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.11.031
关键词
Amnesia; Anterior thalamic nuclei; Diencephalon; Hippocampus; Mammillary bodies; Memory; Retrosplenial cortex
资金
- Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship [WT 212273/Z/18/Z]
- Wellcome Trust [212273/Z/18/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
Research has shown that the mammillary body-anterior thalamic axis plays a crucial role in memory and amnesia, affecting contextual and temporal memory processing. The projections from the mammillothalamic tract have significant distal influence over thalamo-cortical and hippocampo-cortical interactions.
The medial diencephalon, in particular the mammillary bodies and anterior thalamic nuclei, has long been linked to memory and amnesia. The mammillary bodies provide a dense input into the anterior thalamic nuclei, via the mammillothalamic tract. In both animal models, and in patients, lesions of the mammillary bodies, mammillothalamic tract and anterior thalamic nuclei all produce severe impairments in temporal and contextual memory, yet it is uncertain why these regions are critical. Mounting evidence from electrophysiological and neural imaging studies suggests that mammillothalamic projections exercise considerable distal influence over thalamo-cortical and hippocampo-cortical interactions. Here, we outline how damage to the mammillary body-anterior thalamic axis, in both patients and animal models, disrupts behavioural performance on tasks that relate to contextual (where) and temporal (when) processing. Focusing on the medial mammillary nuclei as a possible 'theta-generator' (through their interconnections with the ventral tegmental nucleus of Gudden) we discuss how the mammillary body-anterior thalamic pathway may contribute to the mechanisms via which the hippocampus and neocortex encode representations of experience.
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