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1 Washington University School of Medicine
2 Washington University in St. Louis
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: zhangd{at}npg.wustl.edu.
The brain is active even in the absence of explicit stimuli or overt responses. This activity is highly correlated within specific networks of the cerebral cortex when assessed with resting state fMRI blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) imaging. The role of the thalamus in this intrinsic activity is unknown despite its critical role in the function of the cerebral cortex. Here we mapped correlations in resting state activity between the human thalamus and the cerebral cortex in adult humans using fMRI BOLD imaging. Based on this functional measure of intrinsic brain activity we partitioned the thalamus into nuclear groups that correspond well with post-mortem human histology and connectional anatomy inferred from non-human primates. This structure/function correspondence in resting state activity was strongest between each cerebral hemisphere and its ipsilateral thalamus. However, each hemisphere was also strongly correlated with the contralateral thalamus, a pattern that is not attributable to known thalamocortical monosynaptic connections. These results extend our understanding of the intrinsic network organization of the human brain to the thalamus and highlight the potential of resting state fMRI BOLD imaging to elucidate thalamocortical relationships.
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