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RDoC Unit of Analysis: Circuits
- A1
- A1-RSTG
- ACC / pre-SMA Insula
- Amygdala
- amygdala-brainstem
- Anterior insula
- Anterior medial OFC
- Arcuate nucleus
- ascending/descending information pathways
- Attention network
- autonomic nervous system
- BA6/8 (FEF)
- BA9/medial
- Balance between task positive network (TPN) vs DMN
- Basal forebrain and anterior hypothalamus projections to arousal promoting cell groups
- basal forebrain limbic system
- Basal forebrain nuclei to cortical circuits
- Basal Ganglia
- BasAmyg
- Basolateral amygdala
- Basolateral amygdala/ Hippocampus
- Bed nucleus of stria terminalis
- BNST
- Brainstem
- Brainstem monoaminergic and cholinergic projections to basal forebrain
- Central Amygdala to monoaminergic and basal forebrain cholinergic nuclei
- Central extended amygdala (central nucleus of the amygdala / Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis)
- Central Nucleus
- Cerebello-Olivary-Pontine Complex
- Cerebellum
- Cholinergic and monoaminergic nuclei projections to thalamic and cortical
- Circadian and Sleep-related circuits modulate arousal and are modulated by arousal
- Cochlea
- Corpus Callosum
- Cortical: dorsal/ventral streams; cortico-cortical connections into supra- and infra-granular layers
- Cortical circuits such as fronto-insular and dorsal anterior cingulate
- Cortico-cortical connections into supra- and infra-granular layers
- Corticofugal
- Cortico-limbic circuit
- Default mode network
- d-hippocampus (post)
- dmPFC (pl)
- Dorsal/ventral streams
- dorsal ACC
- Dorsal attention network
- Dorsal Cingulate
- Dorsal Parietal
- dorsal striatum
- Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex
- dPAG
- Dysregulation of amygdala reactivity
- Dysregulation of cingulate reactivity
- Efferent and Afferent Spinal and Peripheral Pathways
- extrastriate body area
- Extrinsic hippocampal circuitry
- FF gyrus
- Frontal Eyefields
- Frontopolar/Anterior LPFC (BA10)
- fusiform face area
- Habit systems (Striatum/caudate/accumbens)
- Hippocampus
- HPA axis
- Hypothalamic neuroendocrine cell groups
- Hypothalamic nuclei
- Hypothalamic orexin projections
- Hypothalamic to thalamic and cortical circuits
- Hypothalamus
- ICMs
- IFG-INS-amygdala/VS
- Inferior colliculus
- Inferior frontal cortex
- Inferior Frontal Gyrus
- Inferior Parietal
- Inferior Parietal Cortex
- Inferior temporal cortex
- Inhibition of DMN
- Insula
- insular cortex
- Intrinsic hippocampal circuitry
- Koniocellular
- LatAmyg
- Lateral habenula
- Lateral hypothalamus
- Lateral interactions
- Lateral Premotor Cortex
- Lateral superior and middle temporal cortices
- latPFC/insula
- LC
- left inferior frontal cortex
- local circuit interactions
- Local circuitry implicated in contextual fields and association fields (responsible for the influence of spatial context on target processing): lateral interactions; top-down interactions
- Magnocellular
- MD
- Medial Amyg
- Medial OFC
- Medial Prefrontal Cortex
- Medial preoptic area
- Mesopontine nuclei
- MGN
- Mid-Cingulate Gyrus
- Motor Cortex
- MPFC
- NAcc
- Non-retinogeniculate: Superior colliculus, Suprachiasmatic nucleus
- Nucleus accumbens
- occipital face area
- Occulomotor System
- OFC
- OFC-ACC-amygdala-striatum
- Orbitofrontal cortex
- Overlap with memory, motor, sensory, and emotional circuits
- PAG
- parasympathetic system
- Paraventricular hypothalamus
- Parietal Association Cortex
- Parietal cortex
- Parvocellular
- PFC and PPC interactions with multiple association cortices
- PFC-parietal-cingulate-dorsal thalamus-dorsal striatum
- Pons
- posterior cingulate/precuneus
- Posterior Cingulate Gyrus
- Posterior Parietal Cortex
- PPC-SC-SNc-SEF-FEF-CB
- precuneus
- Premotor Cortex
- Pre-Supplementary Motor Area
- Projections to midbrain and pontine monoaminergic and cholinergic nuclei
- pulvinar
- PVN
- PVN, DMH, subparaventricular zone, PVT
- PVT
- Raphe to SCN projection
- Reciprocal hypothalamic
- Reciprocal NTS-Central N. Amygdala
- Reciprocoal cholinergic and monoaminergic projection
- Regions including PAG, AC
- Resting state networks
- Retinal cells
- Retinogeniculate tract
- Retino-hypothalamic tract
- Reward circuitry
- R-IFG-RSTG
- Right insula-right inferior frontal
- Right parietal
- rostral/vent ACC
- Rostral medial tegmentum
- RPVM
- SCN/PVN/SCG/pineal
- Sensorimotor-Basal Ganglia
- Sensorimotor-Thalamus
- Septum
- SMA-somatosensory-premotor
- SN/VTA
- Somatosensory Cortex
- Songbird circuits
- STG
- striatum
- Subcortical: magnocellular, parvocellular, koniocellular
- Substantia Nigra
- Substantia nigra/VTA
- Superior colliculus
- Superior Parietal Cortex
- Superior Temporal Sulcus
- Supplementary Motor Area
- Suprachiasmatic nucleus
- Suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) core/shell
- Sympathetic / parasympathetic nervous system
- temporal pole
- Thalamocortical
- Thalamus
- Top-down interactions
- TPJ
- TRN
- V1-FFA-STS-amygdala
- V1-FFA-STS-VS
- VA thalamus
- ventral/dorsal premotor
- ventral anterior cingulate (valence specific)
- Ventral attention network
- Ventral limbic striatum (incl. ventral caudate)
- Ventral pallidum
- Ventral striatum
- Ventral striatum (nACC)
- Ventral tegmental area/Substantia Nigra
- Ventrofronto-striatal
- Ventromedial hypothalamus
- Ventromedial PFC
- v-hippocampus (ant)
- Vigilance network
- VLPFC
- vmPFC
- VMPFC
- vmPFC (il)
- vPAG
- VTA
- VTA/SN
- VTA- NAcc- VP-amygdala