Sleep spindle oscillations consist of waxing–and–waning field potentials of 7 to 14 Hz, which last 1 to 3 seconds and recur every 5 to 15 seconds. These oscillations are generated in the thalamus by ...

The thalamus is a 'Grand Central Station' for sensory information coming to our brains. Almost every sight, sound, taste and touch travels to our brain's cortex via the thalamus. Researchers now ...

Sofya Kulikova, a researcher at HSE University in Perm, is part of an international research team that has discovered potential mechanisms that explain the sleep spindle deficit in ...

Despite major advances in the long-term survival of premature infants, cognitive deficits occur in 30–50% of very preterm (<32 gestational weeks) survivors. Impaired working memory and attention ...

The cortex is at the apex of information processing in the mammalian brain. Interestingly, however, beside olfactory inputs, no fast, precise information reaches the cortex without a thalamic transfer ...

The National Institutes of Health awarded a University of Dayton neuroscientist $413,681 to study the significance of the calcium-handling protein phospholamban in the brain possibly involved in the ...