A song from childhood can hit you out of nowhere. A smell can carry you back decades. Then again, yesterday’s errands fade ...

Learn how the brain sorts fleeting moments from lasting memories using a multi-stage molecular process.

Scientists have uncovered a stepwise system that guides how the brain sorts and stabilizes lasting memories. By tracking ...

As people age, their working memory often declines, making it more difficult to perform everyday tasks. One key brain region linked to this type of memory is the anterior thalamus, which is primarily ...

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 ...

The dorsal thalamus, usually simply referred to as the thalamus is a subdivision of a brain area called the diencephalon, which also includes the eptithalamus, the ventral thalamus and the subthalamic ...