… The mediodorsal thalamus (MD) is the main thalamic target of the VP subdivisions in the
shell-based circuit; they also project to lateral hypothalamus (LH) and PPn. (c) The core retains …

The striatum, the principal input structure of the basal ganglia, is crucial to both motor
control and learning. It receives convergent input from all over the neocortex, hippocampal …

Introduction Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is associated with an increased likelihood of
delayed or non‐healing of a diabetes‐related foot ulcer, gangrene, and amputation. The …

Background Many technological, biological, social, and information networks fall into the
broad class of ‘small-world’ networks: they have tightly interconnected clusters of nodes, and a …

Chromosome 6 is a metacentric chromosome that constitutes about 6% of the human
genome. The finished sequence comprises 166,880,988 base pairs, representing the largest …

Recently, it has been demonstrated that several complex systems may have simple graph-theoretic
characterizations as so-called ‘small-world’ and ‘scale-free’ networks. These …

The basal ganglia (BG) have long been implicated in both motor function and dysfunction. It
has been proposed that the BG form a centralized action selection circuit, resolving conflict …

… Humphries and Gurney extended the original model of intrinsic basal ganglia processing
to include basal ganglia-thalamocortical loops (Humphries & Gurney, 2002). This work led to …

We continuously face the dilemma of choosing between actions that gather new information
or actions that exploit existing knowledge. This “exploration-exploitation” trade-off depends …

Background Renal artery aneurysms (RAAs) are rare, with little known about their natural
history and growth rate or their optimal management. The specific objectives of this study were …