Development and Plasticity in Sensory Thalamus and Cortex

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Erzurumlu, Reha (Editor), Guido, William (Editor), Molnár, Zoltán (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Zoology.; Biomedicine.

Our brain evolved in a manner to enable itself to modify its structure depending on its environment. The thalamus is a large sensory relay station and it is closely integrated into the cortical circuits. Thalamic projections are responsible for dispatching most of the information to the cortex from...