Publisher's Synopsis
This monograph is based on two symposia organized by the;Neurosciences Institute at The Rockefeller University. It presents current knowledge on the thalamus and views the thalamus as a whole rather than as a collection of unrelated nuclear masses. Chapters are organized in four sections: history, morphology, electrophysiology and state-related cellular modes.;Topics addressed include the structure and function of intrinsic thalamic circuitry, thalamic modulation by cortical and brain- stem projections and the feedback onto the brain stem of thalamocortical and palaeocortical transactions.
