Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Arousal dependent modulation of thalamo-cortical functional interaction

  • Iain Stitt,
  • Zhe Charles Zhou,
  • Susanne Radtke-Schuller,
  • Flavio Fröhlich

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04785-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Thalamo-cortical circuit dynamics are tuned according to behavioral demands, yet the neural mechanisms are not well understood. Here the authors report arousal level-dependent switch in the functional interactions between the thalamus and cortex in ferrets both in spontaneous activity as well as during visual processing.