The claustrum

JB Smith, AK Lee, J Jackson - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
The claustrum is a brain region that has been investigated for over 200 years, yet its precise
function remains unknown. In the final posthumously released article of Francis Crick, written …

The anatomy and physiology of claustrum-cortex interactions

J Jackson, JB Smith, AK Lee - Annual review of neuroscience, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The claustrum is one of the most widely connected regions of the forebrain, yet its function
has remained obscure, largely due to the experimentally challenging nature of targeting this …

[HTML][HTML] Functional connectivity under six anesthesia protocols and the awake condition in rat brain

J Paasonen, P Stenroos, RA Salo, V Kiviniemi… - Neuroimage, 2018 - Elsevier
Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI) is a translational imaging
method with great potential in several neurobiologic applications. Most preclinical rsfMRI …

A role for the claustrum in salience processing?

JB Smith, GDR Watson, Z Liang, Y Liu… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The claustrum (CLA) is a subcortical structure, present only in mammals, whose function
remains uncertain. Previously, using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging …

[HTML][HTML] The claustrum and consciousness: An update

YS Liaw, GJ Augustine - International Journal of Clinical and Health …, 2023 - Elsevier
The seminal paper of Crick and Koch (2005) proposed that the claustrum, an enigmatic and
thin grey matter structure that lies beside the insular cortex, may be involved in the …

A role for the claustrum in cognitive control

MB Madden, BW Stewart, MG White… - Trends in cognitive …, 2022 - cell.com
Early hypotheses of claustrum function were fueled by neuroanatomical data and yielded
suggestions that the claustrum is involved in processes ranging from salience detection to …

[HTML][HTML] Claustral neurons projecting to frontal cortex mediate contextual association of reward

A Terem, BJ Gonzales, N Peretz-Rivlin, R Ashwal-Fluss… - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
The claustrum is a small nucleus, exhibiting vast reciprocal connectivity with cortical,
subcortical, and midbrain regions. Recent studies, including ours, implicate the claustrum in …

The relationship between the claustrum and endopiriform nucleus: A perspective towards consensus on cross‐species homology

JB Smith, KD Alloway, PR Hof, R Orman… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
With the emergence of interest in studying the claustrum, a recent special issue of the
Journal of Comparative Neurology dedicated to the claustrum (Volume 525, Issue 6, pp …

Resting state functional connectivity and cognitive task-related activation of the human claustrum

SR Krimmel, MG White, MH Panicker, FS Barrett… - Neuroimage, 2019 - Elsevier
Structural and functional analyses of the human claustrum, a poorly understood
telencephalic gray matter structure, are hampered by its sheet-like anatomical arrangement …

Consciousness: new concepts and neural networks

T Zhao, Y Zhu, H Tang, R **e, J Zhu… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The definition of consciousness remains a difficult issue that requires urgent understanding
and resolution. Currently, consciousness research is an intensely focused area of …