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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-xix Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The History of the Thalamus....Pages 3-42 Front Matter....Pages 43-43 Descriptions of the Thalamus in Representative Mammals....Pages 45-84 Principles of Thalamic Organization....Pages 85-149 Synaptic Organization in the Thalamus....Pages 151-223 Transmitters, Receptors, and Related Compounds in the Thalamus....Pages 225-256 Front Matter....Pages 257-257 Development of the Thalamus....Pages 259-319 Front Matter....Pages 321-321 The Ventral Nuclei....Pages 323-423 The Medial Geniculate Complex....Pages 425-452 Lateral Geniculate Nucleus....Pages 453-527 Lateral Posterior and Pulvinar Nuclei....Pages 529-572 The Posterior Complex of Nuclei....Pages 573-604 The Intralaminar Nuclei....Pages 605-645 The Medial Nuclei....Pages 647-671 The Anterior Nuclei and Lateral Dorsal Nucleus....Pages 673-697 The Ventral Thalamus....Pages 699-733 The Epithalamus....Pages 735-757 Front Matter....Pages 759-759 Comparative Anatomy of the Thalamus....Pages 761-804 Front Matter....Pages 805-805 Concluding Remarks....Pages 807-820 Back Matter....Pages 821-935