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SUBMITTER: Plailly J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2706104 | biostudies-literature | 2008 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Plailly Jane J Howard James D JD Gitelman Darren R DR Gottfried Jay A JA
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 20080501 20
It is widely assumed that the thalamus is functionally irrelevant for the sense of smell. Although animal studies suggest that the mediodorsal (MD) thalamus links primary olfactory (piriform) cortex to olfactory neocortical projection sites in orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), this transthalamic route is regarded to be inconsequential, particularly compared with a direct monosynaptic pathway linking piriform cortex and OFC. In this study, we combined functional magnetic resonance imaging with novel ef ...[more]