Input to apical dendritic tufts is now deemed crucial for associative learning, attention, and
similar “feedback” interactions in the cerebral cortex. Excitatory input to apical tufts in …

Our current understanding of thalamocortical (TC) circuits is largely based on studies
investigating so‐called ‘specific’ thalamic nuclei, which receive and transmit sensory‐triggered …

We report an improved immunohistochemical protocol for revealing anterograde axonal
transport of the subunit B of cholera toxin (CTB) which stains axons and terminals in great detail, …

Pathways arising from the ventral tegmental area (VTA) release dopamine and other
neurotransmitters during the expectation and achievement of reward, and are regarded as central …

All pathways targeting the thalamus terminate directly onto the thalamic projection cells. As
these cells lack local excitatory interconnections, their computations are fundamentally …

The thalamus engages in sensation, action, and cognition, but the structure underlying these
functions is poorly understood. Thalamic innervation of associative cortex targets several …

The thalamus receives input from 3 distinct cortical layers, but input from only 2 of these has
been well characterized. We therefore investigated whether the third input, derived from …

Thalamocortical posterior nucleus (Po) axons innervating the vibrissal somatosensory (S1)
and motor (MC) cortices are key links in the brain neuronal network that allows rodents to …

Transgenic mouse lines in which a fluorescent protein is constitutively expressed under the
Thy1 gene promoter have become important models in cell biology and pathology studies of …

Reelin, a large extracellular matrix glycoprotein, is secreted by several neuron populations
in the developing and adult rodent brain. Secreted Reelin triggers a complex signaling …