title: Consciousness and the brain. The thalamocortical dialogue in health and disease.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA. llinar01@popmail.med.nyu.edu
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Llinás
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Ribary
mesh_terms: 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