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

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.

It is a processing station between the thalamus (lighter blue), which collects ... who did the first studies of bird brain anatomy in the 19th century, to the current view of the bird brain.

In a study published in Science today 1, Mingsha Zhang, a neuroscientist at Beijing Normal University, focused on the thalamus. This region at the centre of the brain is involved in processing ...

A sensory map representing how the brain of a mouse embryo organizes facial ... the team discovered that the thalamic region that normally processes information from the upper lip whiskers adopts ...