Nucleus reuniens of the thalamus contains head direction cells

Discrete populations of brain cells signal heading direction, rather like a compass. These ‘head direction’ cells are largely confined to a closely-connected network of sites. We describe, for the first time, a population of head direction cells in nucleus reuniens of the thalamus in the freely-movi...

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Autores principales: Jankowski, Maciej M, Islam, Md Nurul, Wright, Nicholas F, Vann, Seralynne D, Erichsen, Jonathan T, Aggleton, John P, O'Mara, Shane M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2014
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Neuroscience
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4115655/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25024427
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.03075
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author Jankowski, Maciej M
Islam, Md Nurul
Wright, Nicholas F
Vann, Seralynne D
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Aggleton, John P
O'Mara, Shane M
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description Discrete populations of brain cells signal heading direction, rather like a compass. These ‘head direction’ cells are largely confined to a closely-connected network of sites. We describe, for the first time, a population of head direction cells in nucleus reuniens of the thalamus in the freely-moving rat. This novel subcortical head direction signal potentially modulates the hippocampal CA fields directly and, thus, informs spatial processing and memory. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.03075.001
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spelling pubmed-41156552014-08-22 Nucleus reuniens of the thalamus contains head direction cells Jankowski, Maciej M Islam, Md Nurul Wright, Nicholas F Vann, Seralynne D Erichsen, Jonathan T Aggleton, John P O'Mara, Shane M eLife Neuroscience Discrete populations of brain cells signal heading direction, rather like a compass. These ‘head direction’ cells are largely confined to a closely-connected network of sites. We describe, for the first time, a population of head direction cells in nucleus reuniens of the thalamus in the freely-moving rat. This novel subcortical head direction signal potentially modulates the hippocampal CA fields directly and, thus, informs spatial processing and memory. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.03075.001 eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2014-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC4115655/ /pubmed/25024427 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.03075 Text en Copyright © 2014, Jankowski et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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Jankowski, Maciej M
Islam, Md Nurul
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Vann, Seralynne D
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Aggleton, John P
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Nucleus reuniens of the thalamus contains head direction cells
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