Cell-Targeted Optogenetics and Electrical Microstimulation Reveal the Primate 
Koniocellular Projection to Supra-granular Visual Cortex

Klein, C.; Evrard, H. C.; Shapcott, K. A.; Haverkamp, S.; Logothetis, N. K.; Schmid, M. C.

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2016.02.036

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Cell-Targeted Optogenetics and Electrical Microstimulation Reveal the Primate Koniocellular Projection to Supra-granular Visual Cortex

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Klein, C.
Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Max Planck Society;

Shapcott, K. A.
Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Max Planck Society;

Schmid, M. C.
Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Max Planck Society;

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Klein, C., Evrard, H. C., Shapcott, K. A., Haverkamp, S., Logothetis, N. K., & Schmid, M. C. (2016). Cell-Targeted Optogenetics and Electrical Microstimulation Reveal the Primate Koniocellular Projection to Supra-granular Visual Cortex. Neuron, 90(1), 143-151. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2016.02.036.

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Electrical microstimulation and more recently optogenetics are widely used to map large-scale brain circuits. However, the neuronal specificity achieved with both methods is not well understood. Here we compare cell-targeted optogenetics and electrical microstimulation in the macaque monkey brain to functionally map the koniocellular lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) projection to primary visual cortex (V1). Selective activation of the LGN konio neurons with CamK-specific optogenetics caused selective electrical current inflow in the supra-granular layers of V1. Electrical microstimulation targeted at LGN konio layers revealed the same supra-granular V1 activation pattern as the one elicited by optogenetics. Taken together, these findings establish a selective koniocellular LGN influence on V1 supra-granular layers, and they indicate comparable capacities of both stimulation methods to isolate thalamo-cortical circuits in the primate brain.