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The Thalamus

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  • © 1985

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Editors:
  1. Edward G. Jones

    1. California College of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, USA

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. History

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The History of the Thalamus

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      Pages 3-42

  3. Fundamental Principles

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
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    2. Descriptions of the Thalamus in Representative Mammals

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      Pages 45-84

    3. Principles of Thalamic Organization

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      Pages 85-149

    4. Synaptic Organization in the Thalamus

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      Pages 151-223

    5. Transmitters, Receptors, and Related Compounds in the Thalamus

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      Pages 225-256

  4. Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 257-257
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    2. Development of the Thalamus

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      Pages 259-319

  5. Individual Thalamic Nuclei

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 321-321
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    2. The Ventral Nuclei

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      Pages 323-423

    3. The Medial Geniculate Complex

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      Pages 425-452

    4. Lateral Geniculate Nucleus

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      Pages 453-527

    5. Lateral Posterior and Pulvinar Nuclei

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      Pages 529-572

    6. The Posterior Complex of Nuclei

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      Pages 573-604

    7. The Intralaminar Nuclei

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      Pages 605-645

    8. The Medial Nuclei

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      Pages 647-671

    9. The Anterior Nuclei and Lateral Dorsal Nucleus

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      Pages 673-697

    10. The Ventral Thalamus

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      Pages 699-733
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • California College of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, USA

    Edward G. Jones

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Thalamus

  • Editors: Edward G. Jones

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1749-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1985

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-41856-3Published: 31 December 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-5704-9Published: 16 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-1749-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 935

  • Topics: Neurosciences

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