Parkinson's Circuit (IMAGE)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Parkinson's Circuit

Caption

In this image of the parafascicular (PF) thalamus, the blue cells participate in reward processing/depression, the red cells are critical for motor learning, and the green cells are important for general locomotion. The 'fr' stands for a fiber bundle.

Credit

Ying Zhang and Dheeraj Roy

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