A thalamo-preoptic pathway promoting social touch
David W. Keller, Tamás Láng, Melinda Cservenák, Gina Puska, János Barna, Veronika Csillag, Imre Farkas, Dóra Zelena, Fanni Dóra, Stephanie Küppers, Lara Barteczko, Ted Björn Usdin, Miklós Palkovits, Mazahir T. Hasan, Valery Grinevich, Árpád Dobolyi
The paper identifies a thalamo-preoptic pathway that controls social touch by bypassing the cerebral cortex, involving PTH2-expressing neurons and a conserved circuit across species.
Current Biology · Sep 15, 2022Peer-reviewedNeuroscience