Thalamus Found to Play Key Role in Brain Circuity for Working Memory
Potential to provide a target for novel interventions to reduce cognitive deficits in psychiatric disorders
May 12, 2017
Three teams of neuroscientists, including Christoph Kellendonk, PhD, at Columbia University Medical Center and Joshua Gordon, MD, PhD, formerly at CUMC, recently published “Thalamic projections sustain prefrontal activity during working memory maintenance” in Nature Neuroscience(link is external and opens in a new window) and Nature. For a description of the research please visit the NIMH website(link is external and opens in a new window).
