Bruce Willis’ family shared last week that he was one of the millions of people diagnosed each year with aphasia, an impairment that alters a person’s ability to speak or read Julie Mazziotta is the ...

Deep in the center of your brain, there is a walnut-sized center called the thalamus. Located right next to the brain stem, this tiny part of the brain is very important. Even though this complex part ...

Using direct, intracranial brain recordings in humans, a new study finds that the thalamus, a small region located deep within the brain, plays a pivotal role in conscious perception. According to the ...

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 both ...

Researchers at the Technische Universität München in Munich, Germany have identified thalamic areas consistently involved in the generation of poststroke pain. After a thalamic stroke, ∼7% of patients ...

A 64 year-old woman with atrial fibrillation developed the abrupt onset of difficulty seeing on the right side, associated with memory loss. Posterior Cerebral Artery (PCA) Infarction: ...

The artery of Percheron (AOP) represents a rare anatomical variant whereby a single arterial trunk supplies both paramedian thalami and, in many cases, the rostral midbrain. Occlusion of this artery ...

Aphasia affects the speech, language processing and reading skills of about 2 million people in the United States, according to the American Stroke Association. The communication disorder occurs most ...

A 66 year-old woman developed the abrupt onset of difficulty seeing on the left side, associated with numbness of the left side of the body. Posterior Cerebral Artery (PCA) Infarction: ...