Abstract
Fiber degenerations following stereotactic lesions in the midline nuclei of the cat thalamus, especially in the nucleus centralis medialis, rhomboidalis and reuniens (after perpendicular and oblique electrode approach) were investigated by the Fink-Heimer method of terminal degeneration. These nuclei fail to send direct fibers to all checked cortex regions; they are therefore trunco-thalamic. The midline nuclei of the thalamus, however, have besides very few degenerated fibers to the rostral pole of the thalamus (VA nucleus) strong direct connections to both anterior dorsal nuclei (A.d). This suggests a new additional path of non-specific cortical activation from the thalamic midline nuclei through the anterior dorsal nucleus to the retrosplenial cortex, and hence to the surrounding cortical fields.
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