English to Italian Medical Medical (general) anatomia del cervello

Care colleghe e colleghi, ho un dubbio sulla traduzione dell’espressione “lamina-I thalamocortical neural pathways” inserita nel brano riportato di seguito verso la fine: penso potrebbe riferirsi alle vie neurali che collegano talamo e corteccia passando attraverso la lamina I, ma non ne sono assolutamente sicura e, soprattutto, non saprei come rendere sinteticamente l’espressione in italiano...
Grazie per ogni suggerimento e buon pomeriggio!
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Whereas interoceptive attention enhanced activity in a number of cortical regions receiving afferent information about bodily states, only activity in right anterior insula reflected explicit awareness of interoceptive information. Moreover, we identified this region as a substrate for interoceptive awareness without stimulus confounds or changes in arousal level that are integral to studies mapping responses elicited by thermal or visceral stimulation. … It has also been proposed that the role of right anterior insula in explicit representation of feeling states may represent an evolutionary specialization unique to primates, consequent upon development of *** lamina-I thalamocortical neural pathways *** that convey detailed interoceptive information. … Insula projections of this thalamocortical system support convergence of bodily information including, pain, itch, temperature and visceral changes to provide a rich mapping of internal states for representations of self. … In summary, we used functional and structural neuroimaging techniques to identify brain regions that contribute to attention and awareness of internal bodily processes.