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

Beijing Normal University-led researchers have identified specific high-order thalamic nuclei that drive human conscious ...

In a study published in Science today, Mingsha Zhang, a neuroscientist at Beijing Normal University, focused on the thalamus.

Using direct, intracranial brain recordings in humans, a new study finds that the thalamus, a small region located deep within the brain, plays a pivotal role in conscious perception. According to the ...

Learn about the associations between brain injuries and political behavior, which reveal which brain regions regulate our interest in politics.

The DAM-Decision and Memory group at Universitat Jaume I in Castelló, led by Raphael Kaplan and composed of researchers from ...

While the source of Americans' stress varies – the economy, gun violence and climate change – the effects are the same. We ...