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Thalamic structure

Known as: Thalamus, Dorsal thalamus (Anthoney), Dorsal thalamus 
An ovoid mass composed predominantly of gray substance and associated laminae of white substance. The thalamus is divided into anterior, medial, and… Expand
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Limbic SystemStructure of diencephalon

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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Exercise training increases size of hippocampus and improves memory
The hippocampus shrinks in late adulthood, leading to impaired memory and increased risk for dementia. Hippocampal and medial… Expand
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2010
Review
2010
The Reward Circuit: Linking Primate Anatomy and Human Imaging
Although cells in many brain regions respond to reward, the cortical-basal ganglia circuit is at the heart of the reward system… Expand
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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Characterization and propagation of uncertainty in diffusion‐weighted MR imaging
A fully probabilistic framework is presented for estimating local probability density functions on parameters of interest in a… Expand
Review
2000
Review
2000
Imaging Cognition II: An Empirical Review of 275 PET and fMRI Studies
Positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have been extensively used to explore the… Expand
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
The hypocretins: hypothalamus-specific peptides with neuroexcitatory activity.
We describe a hypothalamus-specific mRNA that encodes preprohypocretin, the putative precursor of a pair of peptides that share… Expand
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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Neurons Containing Hypocretin (Orexin) Project to Multiple Neuronal Systems
The novel neuropeptides called hypocretins (orexins) have recently been identified as being localized exclusively in cell bodies… Expand
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Review
1993
Review
1993
Thalamocortical oscillations in the sleeping and aroused brain.
Sleep is characterized by synchronized events in billions of synaptically coupled neurons in thalamocortical systems. The… Expand
Review
1990
Review
1990
Functional architecture of basal ganglia circuits: neural substrates of parallel processing
Concepts of basal ganglia organization have changed markedly over the past decade, due to significant advances in our… Expand
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Review
1990
Review
1990
Basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuits: parallel substrates for motor, oculomotor, "prefrontal" and "limbic" functions.
The central theme of the "segregated circuits" hypothesis is that structural convergence and functional integration occurs within… Expand
Review
1986
Review
1986
Parallel organization of functionally segregated circuits linking basal ganglia and cortex.
Information about the basal ganglia has accumulated at a prodigious pace over the past decade, necessitating major revisions in… Expand
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