Sherman Lab

The research in the laboratory is all directed at issues of thalamic functional organization, cortical functional organization and thalamocortical relationships. We use a broad interdisciplinary approach, attempting to answer the same or closely related questions with several different techniques. These involve neuroanatomical, neurophysiological, and behavioral methods. More specifically, we use light and electron microscopic techniques to explore various circuits; we use in vitro recordings from brain slices to study cell and synaptic properties; and we record from single thalamic neurons in awake, behaving animals to determine the relationship between behavioral state and thalamic functioning.