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 ...

Purple is a combination of wavelengths from opposite extremes of the spectrum, which technically deosn’t make any sense, but ...

Thalamic regions drive conscious perception by syncing with the prefrontal cortex, acting as a gateway to awareness. Using ...

Despite being the brain’s central relay hub, the thalamus has been underexplored. New work shows that the thalamus can update its own connections, independently of the cortex.

Scientists develop lab-grown model of the human sensory pathway to investigate how pain signals are transmitted to the brain.

Researchers have recreated the human ascending sensory pathway in a lab dish, using organoids that model the key brain and ...

For the first time, scientists have generated a functional neural pathway for sensing pain in a dish. This could help unravel ...

Their findings enhance understanding of how the brain forms conscious ... These findings add direct human evidence to support theories proposing thalamic nuclei as a gateway for conscious perception.