Consciousness and the brain. The thalamocortical dialogue in health and disease.
The goal of this paper is to explore the basic assumption that largescale, temporal coincidence of specific and nonspecific thalamic activity generates the functional states that characterize human cognition.
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Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA. llinar01@popmail.med.nyu.edu
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D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D003243:Consciousness / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009434:Neural Pathways; D013788:Thalamus / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology* / Q000503:physiopathology