Yale scientists traced gamma brain waves to thalamus-cortex interactions. The discovery could reveal how brain rhythms shape perception and disease. For more than a century, scientists have observed ...

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 was so tiny that she wouldn't have ...

Researchers have discovered how two brain areas, neocortex and thalamus, work together to detect discrepancies between what animals expect from their environment and actual events. These prediction ...

When you wake up in the morning, it might feel like your brain just switched on at the ring of an alarm, although you still ...

Learn more about how researchers were able to fully map a mouse brain and give us a better understanding of how or why we ...

Doctors and researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC have developed a new treatment for epilepsy patients who don't respond to medication and aren't candidates for surgery. Their approach, ...

Transcutaneous afferent patterned stimulation is linked to metabolic activity changes in the cerebellum and other brain areas ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The ...