Diverse roles for the posteromedial thalamus in sensory-evoked cortical plasticity.
Matthew J BuchanGemma GothardAlexander von KlempererJoram J van RheedePublished in: Journal of neurophysiology (2020)
The posteromedial thalamus (POm) has extensive recurrent connectivity with the whisker-related primary somatosensory cortex (wS1) of rodents. However, its functional contribution to somatosensory processing in wS1 remains unclear. This article reviews several recent findings, which begin to elucidate the role of POm in sensory-evoked plasticity and discusses their implications for somatosensory processing.