A thalamic reticular networking model of consciousness
Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling March 30, 2010 Byoung‐Kyong Min 103 citations
[BACKGROUND]: It is reasonable to consider the thalamus a primary candidate for the location of consciousness, given that the thalamus has been referred to as the gateway of nearly all sensory inputs to the corresponding cortical areas. Interestingly, in an early stage of brain development, communicative innervations between the dorsal thalamus and telencephalon must pass through the ventral...