"The neurons in the visual thalamus do form connections with both eyes, but are functionally monocular or, so to speak, one-eyed. That means that only the signal strength of one eye is high enough ...

In A Nutshell Researchers identified CGRP-producing neurons in the thalamus that connect pain signals with emotional threat ...

Reward-sensitive neurons are present throughout the brain. A report in Science now shows that a subset of thalamic neurons respond selectively to the smaller of two rewards, as opposed to just ...

Pain is more than a physical signal — it also carries emotional weight that shapes our response and memory of discomfort.

Years ago, as a neurology resident, Chinfei Chen, MD, Ph.D., cared for a 20-year-old woman who had experienced a very small stroke, affecting only the thalamus.

With a finding that will "rewrite neuroanatomy textbooks," University of Iowa neurologist Aaron Boes, MD, PhD, and his colleagues show that the thalamus is not a critical part of the brain pathway ...

Isolating thalamic excitation. To isolate the thalamic component of visually evoked synaptic excitation in L4 neurons in vivo, we optogenetically silenced the mouse visual cortex ().The cortex was ...

The analysis showed thalamic inputs were rather small and accounted for two to 10 percent of the excitatory synapses on individual neurons in the visual cortex.

In the visual thalamus, neurons are in contact with both eyes but respond to only one. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 06 / 210618134109.htm.