Advances in Paraventricular Thalamic Nucleus
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Neurosurgery and Neuroanatomy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 307
Special Issue Editor
Interests: neural circuits; synaptic transmission; food intake; feeding motivation; motivated behaviors; reward and motivation; zona incerta; paraventricular thalamus; hypothalamus
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Emerging evidence has confirmed that paraventricular thalamus (PVT) plays a critical role in the regulation of emotion, motivation, and behaviors such as fear expression, drug addiction, pain processing, and food intake. PVT neurons receive projections and modulations widely from the prefrontal cortex (PFC), hypothalamus, zona incerta, and brainstem. To exert their functions, PVT neurons send projections to the forebrain including the amygdala, nucleus accumbens (NAc), insular cortex, and bed nucleus of stria terminalis (BNST). Although the afferents and efferents of PVT are relatively clear based on traditional neural circuit tracings, the specific functions of those projections remain to be clarified due to the diversity of PVT neurons across the anatomical regions from anterior to posterior PVT.
In this Special Issue, we intend to present important findings, achieved with cutting-edge technologies (such as chemogenetics, optogenetics, fiber photometry, and virus-based neural circuit mapping) and traditional tools (such as immunocytochemistry, electrophysiology, and pharmacology), that lead to a better understanding of the diversity of PVT neurons and their neural circuit connections for the regulation of emotion, motivation, and behaviors. We hope to collect high-quality findings about PVT neurons in cellular, circuitry, and behavioral levels that contribute to the advances of PVT in functional brain control.
Dr. Xiaobing Zhang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- paraventricular thalamus
- synaptic transmission
- neural circuit
- fear response
- drug addiction
- reward, motivation
- food intake
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