Beijing Normal University-led researchers have identified specific high-order thalamic nuclei that drive human conscious ...

A new experiment suggests that the thalamus plays a key role in humans becoming consciously aware of stimuli their brain ...

A new study reveals that the thalamus, long overshadowed by the cortex and hippocampus, plays a crucial role in shaping and ...

A Chinese team recorded the neural activity of people with electrodes implanted deep in their brains as they ... with just a few exploring the function of deeper brain structures. “Capturing neural ...

This valuable study shows that locomotion-related modulations in the mouse visual cortex are not uniform but primarily affect neurons in muscarinic receptor-negative patches, which receive projections ...

But Chen thinks the thalamus is critical to cognitive function, especially during early ... that cell populations within the LGN changed their response patterns based on the animals' visual ...

Years ago, as a neurology resident, Chinfei Chen, MD, PhD, cared for a 20-year-old woman who had experienced a very small stroke, affecting only the thalamus.