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Study unveils key role of prefrontal-thalamic circuit in social recognition - EurekAlert
Prof. ZHAN Yang's team at the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) identified a neural circuit between the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and the thalamic reuniens nucleus (Re) crucial for social recognition. Published in Nature Communications, their study showed that this circuit encodes information about familiar and novel identities. Disrupting the Re impairs the mPFC's ability to process social stimuli, highlighting the importance of the mPFC-Re circuit in social information processing and offering new insights into the neural basis of social behavior.
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