Parallel Driving and Modulatory Pathways Link the Prefrontal Cortex and Thalamus

Basilis Zikopoulos; Helen Barbas

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000848

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Parallel Driving and Modulatory Pathways Link the Prefrontal Cortex and Thalamus

Basilis Zikopoulos,

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Helen Barbas

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: barbas@bu.edu

Affiliations Department of Health Sciences, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Neuroscience, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, New England Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Parallel Driving and Modulatory Pathways Link the Prefrontal Cortex and Thalamus

Basilis Zikopoulos,
Helen Barbas

Published: September 5, 2007
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000848

About the Authors

Basilis Zikopoulos

Affiliation Department of Health Sciences, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Helen Barbas

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: barbas@bu.edu

Affiliations Department of Health Sciences, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Neuroscience, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, New England Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HB BZ. Performed the experiments: HB BZ. Analyzed the data: HB BZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HB. Wrote the paper: HB BZ.

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