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It is now more than fifty years since Sir Wilfrid Le Gros Clark (1932a) published his Arris and Gale lectures on the structure and connections of the thalamus. This authoritative overview came at a time when thalamic studies were passing from a descriptive to an experimental phase and, in his review, Le Gros Clark was able to cover virtually every aspect of the organization and development and much of the comparative anatomy of the thalamus then known. It is also approaching a half-century since A. Earl Walker (1938a) wrote The Primate Thalamus, which was strongly experimental, but with many Clinical in sights, and which he described as "an attempt to elucidate the role of the thalamus in sensation. " The intervening years have seen published a few reports of con ferences on aspects of thalamic organization and function but no monographs comparable to those of Le Gros Clark or Walker. Perhaps this is understandable when one considers, not so much the enormity of the new data that have been added, but rather the emphasis upon individual thalamic nuclei as components of separate functional systems, not all of them sensory. It is probably also true to say that studies in the commoner experimental animals such as the rat, cat, and monkey have been so productive in their own right that there was little interest in making an across-species synthesis.
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Year: 1,985
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Edition: 1
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Pages: 935
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Pages In File: 915
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Language: English
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Topic: 147
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Identifier: 978-1-4613-5704-9,978-1-4615-1749-8
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Doi: 10.1007/978-1-4615-1749-8
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Toc: Front Matter....Pages i-xixFront Matter....Pages 1-1The History of the Thalamus....Pages 3-42Front Matter....Pages 43-43Descriptions of the Thalamus in Representative Mammals....Pages 45-84Principles of Thalamic Organization....Pages 85-149Synaptic Organization in the Thalamus....Pages 151-223Transmitters, Receptors, and Related Compounds in the Thalamus....Pages 225-256Front Matter....Pages 257-257Development of the Thalamus....Pages 259-319Front Matter....Pages 321-321The Ventral Nuclei....Pages 323-423The Medial Geniculate Complex....Pages 425-452Lateral Geniculate Nucleus....Pages 453-527Lateral Posterior and Pulvinar Nuclei....Pages 529-572The Posterior Complex of Nuclei....Pages 573-604The Intralaminar Nuclei....Pages 605-645The Medial Nuclei....Pages 647-671The Anterior Nuclei and Lateral Dorsal Nucleus....Pages 673-697The Ventral Thalamus....Pages 699-733The Epithalamus....Pages 735-757Front Matter....Pages 759-759Comparative Anatomy of the Thalamus....Pages 761-804Front Matter....Pages 805-805Concluding Remarks....Pages 807-820Back Matter....Pages 821-935