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

Located deep in the brain, the thalamus is the brain's central relay hub ... They then recorded the activity of neurons in ...

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

Summary: Touch is a vital sense, yet the brain processes active and passive touch using distinct pathways. In mice, researchers found that different regions of the thalamus—the brain’s sensory ...

recordings were taken from five adult patients undergoing evaluation for deep brain stimulation as part of treatment for drug ...

Though the sense of touch underlies how we and most other animals interact with the world around us, much remains unknown ...

“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.

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 ...

Subcortical structures, including high-order thalamic nuclei ... five adult patients undergoing evaluation for deep brain stimulation as part of treatment for drug-resistant headaches.