Thalamic input to motor cortex facilitates goal-directed action initiation

Premotor ramping of thalamic neuronal activity is modulated by nigral inputs and contributes to control the timing of action release

(2021) Julien Catanese et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Rapid suppression and sustained activation of distinct cortical regions for a delayed sensory-triggered motor response

(2021) Vahid Esmaeili et al.   NEURON

Active dendritic currents gate descending cortical outputs in perception

(2020) Naoya Takahashi et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

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

(2020) Paul G. Anastasiades et al.   NEURON

Unilateral Optogenetic Inhibition and Excitation of Basal Ganglia Output Affect Directional Lick Choices and Movement Initiation in Mice

(2019) Arthur E. Morrissette et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Neural mechanisms of movement planning: motor cortex and beyond

(2018) Karel Svoboda et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

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

(2018) David P. Collins et al.   NEURON

Differentiating Cerebellar Impact on Thalamic Nuclei

(2018) Simona V. Gornati et al.   Cell Reports

Anterolateral motor cortex connects with a medial subdivision of ventromedial thalamus through cell-type-specific circuits, forming an excitatory thalamo-cortico-thalamic loop via layer 1 apical tuft dendrites of layer 5B pyramidal tract type neurons

(2018) KuangHua Guo et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Thalamocortical Axonal Activity in Motor Cortex Exhibits Layer-Specific Dynamics during Motor Learning

(2018) Yasuyo H. Tanaka et al.   NEURON

Thalamic afferents to prefrontal cortices from ventral motor nuclei in decision-making

(2018) Bianca Sieveritz et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

A cortico-cerebellar loop for motor planning

(2018) Zhenyu Gao et al.   NATURE

Maintenance of persistent activity in a frontal thalamocortical loop

(2017) Zengcai V. Guo et al.   NATURE

Global Representations of Goal-Directed Behavior in Distinct Cell Types of Mouse Neocortex

(2017) William E. Allen et al.   NEURON

A Map of Anticipatory Activity in Mouse Motor Cortex

(2017) Tsai-Wen Chen et al.   NEURON

The Basal Ganglia Do Not Select Reach Targets but Control the Urgency of Commitment

(2017) David Thura et al.   NEURON

A Reward-Based Behavioral Platform to Measure Neural Activity during Head-Fixed Behavior

(2017) Andrew H. Micallef et al.   Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Robust neuronal dynamics in premotor cortex during motor planning

(2016) Nuo Li et al.   NATURE

Active cortical dendrites modulate perception

(2016) Naoya Takahashi et al.   SCIENCE

Distinct roles of visual, parietal, and frontal motor cortices in memory-guided sensorimotor decisions

(2016) Michael J Goard et al.   eLife

A motor cortex circuit for motor planning and movement

(2015) Nuo Li et al.   NATURE

Cortical activity in the null space: permitting preparation without movement

(2014) Matthew T Kaufman et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Ventral Medial Nucleus Neurons Send Thalamocortical Afferents More Widely and More Preferentially to Layer 1 than Neurons of the Ventral Anterior–Ventral Lateral Nuclear Complex in the Rat

(2013) Eriko Kuramoto et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Ultrasensitive fluorescent proteins for imaging neuronal activity

(2013) Tsai-Wen Chen et al.   NATURE

Flow of Cortical Activity Underlying a Tactile Decision in Mice

(2013) Zengcai V. Guo et al.   NEURON

Motor thalamus integration of cortical, cerebellar and basal ganglia information: implications for normal and parkinsonian conditions

(2013) Clémentine Bosch-Bouju et al.   Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Thalamic Control of Layer 1 Circuits in Prefrontal Cortex

(2012) S. J. Cruikshank et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Basal ganglia contributions to motor control: a vigorous tutor

(2010) Robert S Turner et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Complementary distribution of glutamatergic cerebellar and GABAergic basal ganglia afferents to the rat motor thalamic nuclei

(2010) Eriko Kuramoto et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Learning-related fine-scale specificity imaged in motor cortex circuits of behaving mice

(2010) Takaki Komiyama et al.   NATURE

Decisions in Changing Conditions: The Urgency-Gating Model

(2009) P. Cisek et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE