Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Oxford, United Kingdom.
J Neurophysiol. 2021 Feb 1;125(2):537-539. doi: 10.1152/jn.00291.2020. Epub 2020 Dec 23.
The posteromedial thalamus (POm) has extensive recurrent connectivity with the whisker-related primary somatosensory cortex (wS1) of rodents. However, its functional contribution to somatosensory processing in wS1 remains unclear. This article reviews several recent findings, which begin to elucidate the role of POm in sensory-evoked plasticity and discusses their implications for somatosensory processing.
丘脑后内侧核(POm)与啮齿动物的触须相关初级体感皮层(wS1)之间存在广泛的回返连接。然而,其对 wS1 中体感处理的功能贡献尚不清楚。本文综述了几项最近的发现,这些发现开始阐明 POm 在感觉诱发可塑性中的作用,并讨论了其对体感处理的意义。