Spaceflight results in crowding of brain tissue at the vertex. Red voxels indicate regions along the brain surface where there was an increase in brain parenchyma pre- to postflight due to ...

A new experiment suggests that the thalamus plays a key role in humans becoming consciously aware of stimuli their brain ...

Direct brain recordings reveal that the thalamus, especially its intralaminar and medial nuclei, actively shapes conscious ...

A team of researchers at UCL and UCLH have identified the key brain regions that are essential ... is the most powerful method for localizing function in the human brain. Studying brain injuries ...

Brain researchers have identified a bridge between the thalamus and the cortex as the key area that is modified during motor learning functions. They found that such learning does much more than ...