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The medial dorsal nucleus of the thalamus is not part of a hippocampal-thalamic memory system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1999

Menno P. Witter  and
Ysbrand D. Van der Werf
Menno P. Witter
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Neurosciences Amsterdam, Research Institute-Neurosciences, Vrije University, Department of Anatomy and Embryology, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands{mp.witter.anat; yd.van_der_werf.anat}@med.vu.nl
Ysbrand D. Van der Werf
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Neurosciences Amsterdam, Research Institute-Neurosciences, Vrije University, Department of Anatomy and Embryology, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands{mp.witter.anat; yd.van_der_werf.anat}@med.vu.nl
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Abstract

Aggleton & Brown propose that familiarity-based recognition depends on a perirhinal-medial dorsal thalamic system. However, connections between these structures are sparse or absent. In contrast, the perirhinal cortex is connected to midline/intralaminar nuclei. In a human, a lesion in this thalamic domain, sparing the medial dorsal nucleus, impaired familiarity-based recognition while sparing recollective-based recognition. It is thus more likely that the intralaminar/midline nuclei are involved in recognition.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , June 1999 , pp. 467 - 468
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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