The superior colliculus: cell types, connectivity, and behavior

X Liu, H Huang, TP Snutch, P Cao, L Wang… - Neuroscience bulletin, 2022 - Springer
The superior colliculus (SC), one of the most well-characterized midbrain sensorimotor
structures where visual, auditory, and somatosensory information are integrated to initiate …

[HTML][HTML] A multisensory perspective onto primate pulvinar functions

M Froesel, C Cappe, SB Hamed - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Perception in ambiguous environments relies on the combination of sensory information
from various sources. Most associative and primary sensory cortical areas are involved in …

Virtual cortical resection reveals push-pull network control preceding seizure evolution

AN Khambhati, KA Davis, TH Lucas, B Litt, DS Bassett - Neuron, 2016 - cell.com
In∼ 20 million people with drug-resistant epilepsy, focal seizures originating in
dysfunctional brain networks will often evolve and spread to surrounding tissue, disrupting …

Look me in the eyes: constraining gaze in the eye-region provokes abnormally high subcortical activation in autism

N Hadjikhani, J Åsberg Johnels, NR Zürcher… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) seem to have difficulties looking
others in the eyes, but the substrate for this behavior is not well understood. The subcortical …

Amygdala response to emotional stimuli without awareness: facts and interpretations

M Diano, A Celeghin, A Bagnis, M Tamietto - Frontiers in psychology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Over the past two decades, evidence has accumulated that the human amygdala exerts
some of its functions also when the observer is not aware of the content, or even presence …

Associative and plastic thalamic signaling to the lateral amygdala controls fear behavior

B Barsy, K Kocsis, A Magyar, Á Babiczky, M Szabó… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Decades of research support the idea that associations between a conditioned stimulus
(CS) and an unconditioned stimulus (US) are encoded in the lateral amygdala (LA) during …

The effects of trauma on brain and body: A unifying role for the midbrain periaqueductal gray

BA Terpou, S Harricharan… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a diagnosis that may follow the experience of trauma,
has multiple symptomatic phenotypes. Generally, individuals with PTSD display symptoms …

The influence of subcortical shortcuts on disordered sensory and cognitive processing

J McFadyen, RJ Dolan, MI Garrido - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
The very earliest stages of sensory processing have the potential to alter how we perceive
and respond to our environment. These initial processing circuits can incorporate subcortical …

An afferent white matter pathway from the pulvinar to the amygdala facilitates fear recognition

J McFadyen, JB Mattingley, MI Garrido - elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Our ability to rapidly detect threats is thought to be subserved by a subcortical pathway that
quickly conveys visual information to the amygdala. This neural shortcut has been …

Dissecting the circuit for blindsight to reveal the critical role of pulvinar and superior colliculus

M Kinoshita, R Kato, K Isa, K Kobayashi… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
In patients with damage to the primary visual cortex (V1), residual vision can guide goal-
directed movements to targets in the blind field without awareness. This phenomenon has …