Research that is taking a closer look at activity in the thalamus—a region long considered a relay station for the brain and involved in consciousness and motor activity—reveals the thalamus may play ...
A biophysically constrained computational model of a lateral geniculate thalamocortical neuron reveals five distinct firing ...
When you see something—a tree in your backyard, say, or the toy your toddler hands you—that visual information travels from your retinas to your brain. And like a train stopping at stations along its ...
Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital have identified an altered cerebellar-amygdala-thalamic brain circuit associated ...
The thalamus is a critical relay center in motor circuit and plays a key role in the pathophysiology of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Hierarchical organization is a fundamental principle underlying human ...
A recent study from Simon Fraser University researchers has revealed how an overlooked type of indirect brain damage contributes to ongoing disability after a stroke. The paper, published in ...
Axons in the thalamus (pink) extended toward the cortex, while those in the cortex (green) extended toward the thalamus at 14 days post-fusion. A Japanese research team has successfully reproduced the ...
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. "It was so tiny that she wouldn't have ...
How consciousness emerges in the brain is the ultimate mystery. Scientists generally agree that consciousness relies on multiple brain regions working in tandem. But the areas and neural connections ...