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The Role Of Corticothalamic Projections (Prelimbic Cortex To Nucleus Reuniens) In Working Memory, Phillip Kumpf, Paul C. Kumpf, S. D. Dunn, Evan Ciacciarelli, T. Gohar, Timothy Sloand, Mark Niedringhaus, Elizabeth West
The Role Of Corticothalamic Projections (Prelimbic Cortex To Nucleus Reuniens) In Working Memory, Phillip Kumpf, Paul C. Kumpf, S. D. Dunn, Evan Ciacciarelli, T. Gohar, Timothy Sloand, Mark Niedringhaus, Elizabeth West
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Working memory (WM) is the ability to store information for short periods of time and is used to execute tasks
WM has been understood to work via the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and dorsal hippocampus (dHPC), but they do not directly project to each other
The nucleus reuniens of the thalamus (Re) is a “middle man” between the mPFC and dHPC
There are projections between the prelimbic cortex (PrL) and Re that may be used during WM
To test the connection of the PrL to Re, a delayed nonmatch to position (DNMTP) task was performed