In a study published in Science today, Mingsha Zhang, a neuroscientist at Beijing Normal University, focused on the thalamus.

“The thalamus has traditionally been regarded ... These findings could provide a better understanding of how the brain of a person born without a body part reorganizes its sensory functions.

Examination of the subject's anatomical brain structure showed dramatic loss of gray matter volume over the course of ...

Thus, the lateral geniculate nucleus of the visual thalamus has been conserved in ... For example, there are many instances where a layered brain part evolved from a brain part without layers.

Humanity has been hunting for sex-based differences in the brain since at least the time of the ancient Greeks, and it has ...

Next time you feel an itch, remember that your brain's vast network of neurons informs it whether it is an itch or pain. A ...

Volumes of the hippocampus and amygdala and subcortical grey matter including thalamus, caudate and putamen were calculated using the automated full brain segmentation process ... of specific ...

A new study using intracranial recordings in humans reveals that the thalamus, particularly its higher-order regions, plays a central role in triggering conscious perception.

Using direct, intracranial brain recordings in humans, a new study finds that the thalamus, a small region located deep within the brain, plays a pivotal role in conscious perception. According to the ...

"The thalamus has traditionally been regarded ... These findings could provide a better understanding of how the brain of a person born without a body part reorganizes its sensory functions.