Consciousness and the brain. The thalamocortical dialogue in health and disease

R Llinás; U Ribary

Consciousness and the brain. The thalamocortical dialogue in health and disease

Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2001 Apr:929:166-75.

Authors

R Llinás¹, U Ribary

Affiliation

¹ Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA. llinar01@popmail.med.nyu.edu

PMID: 11349424

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.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Review

MeSH terms

Brain Diseases / physiopathology*
Cerebral Cortex / cytology
Cerebral Cortex / physiology*
Cerebral Cortex / physiopathology
Consciousness / physiology*
Humans
Neural Pathways
Thalamus / cytology
Thalamus / physiology*
Thalamus / physiopathology

Grants and funding

NS13742/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States