Nucleus reuniens of the thalamus contains head direction cells

Maciej M. Jankowski; Md Nurul Islam; Nicholas F. Wright; Seralynne D. Vann; Jonathan T. Erichsen; John P. Aggleton; Shane M. O'Mara

doi:10.7554/eLife.03075

Nucleus reuniens of the thalamus contains head direction cells

Maciej M. Jankowski, Md Nurul Islam, Nicholas F. Wright, Seralynne D. Vann, Jonathan T. Erichsen, John P. Aggleton, Shane M. O'Mara^*

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Abstract

Discrete populations of brain cells signal heading direction, rather like a compass. These ‘head direction’ cells are largely confined to a closely-connected network of sites. We describe, for the first time, a population of head direction cells in nucleus reuniens of the thalamus in the freely-moving rat. This novel subcortical head direction signal potentially modulates the hippocampal CA fields directly and, thus, informs spatial processing and memory.

Original language	English
Article number	e03075
Pages (from-to)	1-10
Number of pages	10
Journal	eLife
Volume	3
Issue number	July2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.03075
State	Published - 14 Jul 2014
Externally published	Yes

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