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^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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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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