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

Researchers now show that although neurons in the mouse visual thalamus connect to both eyes, they establish strong functional connections only with one retina.

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

Scientists have discovered a brain circuit that gives pain its emotional sting, explaining why some hurts linger as suffering ...

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.

Pedro Schestatsky warns that not getting enough sleep favors the “accumulation of toxins such as beta-amyloid, which is ...

Scientists have uncovered a brain circuit linking physical pain to emotional suffering, offering new hope for chronic pain treatment.

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.

UC San Diego researchers discovered that during motor learning, inputs from the motor thalamus play a crucial role in coordinating learned movements. As mice learned, the thalamus shifted its timing, ...

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.

"The neurons in the visual thalamus do form connections with both eyes, but are functionally monocular or, so to speak, one-eyed.

Inactivating motor thalamus neurons in expert mice significantly impaired the mice’s ability to perform the learned movement. This confirmed that the precise execution of learned movements requires ...