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Response of recticular and dorsal thalamic nuclei neurons during extinction of conditioned implementation in the cat

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Unit activity in 66 neurons of the reticular (R) nucleus and 31 neurons of the ventropostrolateral nuclei of the thalamus, and 14 neurons of the posterolateral nuclear complex, the pulvinar, were studied during extinction of the conditioned food implementation reflex. The number of R neurons that had responded to initial excitation in the first 300 msec after the conditional stimulus (CS) decreased with the extinction. Simultaneous disappearance of conditioned-reflex placement movements and late excitatory and inhibitory responses of R and dorsal thalamic nuclei neurons with latent periods exceeding 300 msec was also observed. Extinction of the conditioned reflex (CR) led to a significant lowering of background activity in two-thirds of investigated R and other thalamic nuclear neurons. This suggests that efferent effects from the reticular nucleus are decreased during Cr extinction.

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A. A. Bogomolets Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Kiev. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 3–8, January–February, 1991.

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Moldavan, M.G. Response of recticular and dorsal thalamic nuclei neurons during extinction of conditioned implementation in the cat. Neurophysiology 23, 1–5 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01052282

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