Sensory and behavioral modulation of thalamic head-direction cells.
Eduardo Blanco-HernándezGiuseppe BalsamoPatricia Preston-FerrerAndrea BurgalossiPublished in: Nature neuroscience (2024)
Head-direction (HD) neurons are thought to exclusively encode directional heading. In awake mice, we found that sensory stimuli evoked robust short-latency responses in thalamic HD cells, but not in non-HD neurons. The activity of HD cells, but not that of non-HD neurons, was tightly correlated to brain-state fluctuations and dynamically modulated during social interactions. These data point to a new role for the thalamic compass in relaying sensory and behavioral-state information.
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