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

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

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.

Feng et al. discovered that the intralaminar and medial thalamic nuclei exhibited earlier and stronger consciousness-related neural activity compared to the ventral nuclei and PFC. Notably, the ...

Interfaculty Research Cooperation Grant “Decoding sleep†The TSS study (Thalamic Stroke and Sleep) was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation grant Sleep, Stroke, Neuroplasticity; the ...