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Thalamus and Behavioral Neuroscience

A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Neurobiology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 6348

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Department of Psychiatry, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea
Interests: brain imaging; stress- and trauma-related disorders; sleep medicine

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Recently, the thalamus and thalamic circuit has been suggested to be important in the behavior of human and animal. This Special Issue will cover various levels of research from molecular/cellular studies to human studies reporting the association between thalamus and various feature of behaviors. The scope of the topics includes but is not limited to emotion, cognition, sleep/biological rhythm, eating, instinct, addiction, brain development, response to stress/trauma and behaviors. Studies in this special issue will show the role of thalamus or thalamic circuits in the emotion, cognition, and behavior of human and animal. In addition, they will help neurobiological understanding for human behavior, psychology and psychopathology.

Prof. Dr. Seog-ju Kim

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Keywords

  • Behavior
  • Emotion
  • Cognition
  • Stress

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The Role of the Thalamus in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
by Takanobu Yoshii
Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2021, 22(4), 1730; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms22041730 - 9 Feb 2021
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Abstract
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has a high lifetime prevalence and is one of the more serious challenges in mental health care. Fear-conditioned learning involving the amygdala has been thought to be one of the main causative factors; however, recent studies have reported abnormalities [...] Read more.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has a high lifetime prevalence and is one of the more serious challenges in mental health care. Fear-conditioned learning involving the amygdala has been thought to be one of the main causative factors; however, recent studies have reported abnormalities in the thalamus of PTSD patients, which may explain the mechanism of interventions such as eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). Therefore, I conducted a miniature literature review on the potential contribution of the thalamus to the pathogenesis of PTSD and the validation of therapeutic approaches. As a result, we noticed the importance of the retinotectal pathway (superior colliculus−pulvinar−amygdala connection) and discussed therapeutic indicators. Full article
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