Interaction of thalamic and cortical activity in the primate visual system

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1027913

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

We recently discovered that a primitive part of the visual pathway shows rhythmic nerve cell activity similar to slow brain waves recorded in sleep, anaesthesia, and epilepsy. We now plan to discover whether these primitive cells help to generate brain waves by measuring the timing of their activity together with brain waves in different visual and non-visual parts of the brain. This project will contribute to understanding the role of brain waves in normal brain function and epilepsy.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2012

End Date: 01-01-2014

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $487,580.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Sensory Systems

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

cerebral cortex | epilepsy | neuroanatomical connections | neurophysiology | thalamus | vision

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