The claustrum is a highway not a hub : organizing principles of claustrocortical synaptic transmission

• Main Author: Chia, Zach Zhi Qi
• Other Authors: George Augustine
• Format: Thesis-Doctor of Philosophy
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Science::Biological sciences::Human anatomy and physiology::Neurobiology; Science::Biological sciences::Biophysics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144870
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The claustrum (CLA) is a brain nucleus wedged between the cortex and striatum. The behaviors it has been implicated in include consciousness, attention, memory and salience detection; dysfunction of CLA circuits is associated with schizophrenia, epilepsy, parkinsonism and disrupted consciousness....