News and Views


Nature Neuroscience 10, 400 - 402 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nn0407-400

It's about time for thalamocortical circuits

Court Hull1 & Massimo Scanziani1

  1. The authors are in the Section of Neurobiology, Division of Biology, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0634, USA. e-mail: massimo@ucsd.edu


The timing of thalamocortical excitation and inhibition is critical to local microcircuits. Two new papers shed light on the development and performance of a somatosensory microcircuit that regulates the integration of thalamic inputs.

Top

MORE ARTICLES LIKE THIS

These links to content published by NPG are automatically generated.

NEWS AND VIEWS

A wake-up call from the thalamus

Nature Neuroscience News and Views (01 Apr 2001)

Bypassing interneurons: inhibition in neocortex

Nature Neuroscience News and Views (01 Jul 2007)


Extra navigation

Subscribe to Nature Neuroscience

Subscribe

naturejobs

natureproducts


ADVERTISEMENT