In a massive scientific effort, hundreds of researchers have helped to map the connections between hundreds of thousands of neurons in the mouse brain and then overlayed their firing patterns in ...

From a pinprick to a warm breeze, every sensation you perceive begins its journey along this ascending sensory pathway. For the first time, scientists have recreated the entire human nervous system’s ...

Immediate use for the newly developed assembloids could include studying neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism.

Scientists have re-created a pain pathway in the brain by growing four key clusters of human nerve cells in a dish. This ...

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

Four tiny 3D organs connected themselves in a lab dish, forming a replica of the human pain pathway, in a new study. The discovery allows scientists to better understand chronic pain and how pain ...

Summary: Touch is a vital sense, yet the brain processes active and passive touch using distinct pathways. In mice, ...

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.

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

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 ...

Signals from the body are first sent to the thalamus, the brain’s hub for sensory processing. Neurons here relay information to higher brain regions that help identify the source and intensity ...