Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 117, No. 23 (June 9, 2020), pp. 13066-13077 (12 pages) Layer 6 (L6) is the sole purveyor of corticothalamic (CT) ...

Auditory hallucinations -- one of the most characteristic symptoms of schizophrenia -- have been linked to a hyper-connection between the substructures of the thalamus and the cerebral cortex. There ...

The pathophysiology of migraine with aura in women does not involve alteration of thalamic volume, according to a study published in NeuroImage: Clinical. Migraine with aura presents as attacks of ...

Now, a multidisciplinary study involving scientists from the Basque Centre on Cognition Brain and Language (BCBL), the University College London and the University of Castilla-La Mancha shows the ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Medicine, researchers evaluated the effectiveness and safety of deep brain stimulation (DBS) within the central lateral (CL) thalamic nuclei and the ...

The thalamus is a 'Grand Central Station' for sensory information coming to our brains. Almost every sight, sound, taste and touch travels to our brain's cortex via the thalamus. Researchers now ...

The cortex is at the apex of information processing in the mammalian brain. Interestingly, however, beside olfactory inputs, no fast, precise information reaches the cortex without a thalamic transfer ...

"This study puts emphasis on the thalamus and its importance during adolescence in regulating prefrontal cortex circuit maturation. We hope that our findings will inspire future studies to disentangle ...

TORTICOLLIS is an involuntary movement disorder resulting in tonic abnormal deviation of the head and neck. It is often accompanied by hyperkinesis of the head and neck, consisting of arrhythmic ...

A new study published in Science has identified the thalamus as a central player in how humans become consciously aware of visual information. By recording electrical activity directly from the brains ...