We review recent studies of mouse thalamus, discussing how they revealed general principles that may underlie human perception and attention. Controlling the magnitude (gain) of thalamic sensory ...

The visual thalamus is classically known to relay visual stimuli coming from the retina to the cerebral cortex. Researchers now show that although neurons in the mouse visual thalamus connect to ...

The thalamus is a very key area of the brain that shouldn't be neglected." More information: Takuma Sonoda et al, Experience influences the refinement of feature selectivity in the mouse primary ...

However, Dr. Halassa's team discovered that PFC neurons may instead tune the sensitivity of a mouse brain to sights and sounds by sending signals to inhibitory thalamic reticular nucleus (TRN ...

"We chose to specifically focus on serotonin because our previous work on mouse brain slices showed ... axons and the release of glutamate in the thalamus. This ultimately reduces the transmission ...

Visual information reaches the thalamus through the retina ... When one eye of the mouse is occluded for several days, the visual cortex starts to respond less effectively to the closed eye ...

At the same time, the researchers tested whether stimulating or inhibiting the hippocampus or anterior thalamus during training would impact a mouse’s ability to form memories and store them ...

Michael Halassa: We started as a mouse lab trying to better understand a part of the brain called the thalamus, which is involved in gating sensory information and helping you to decide where to ...

However, recent anatomical studies describe that a surprising number of neurons in the mouse visual thalamus has contact to both eyes. Does the separation of 'left eye' and 'right eye' information ...

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 ...