Sentences with phrase «thalamus works»

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Yet studies on patients with Parkinson's disease show that the thalamus can not completely explain how anesthesia works.

Normally, pain signals begin somewhere in the body and work their way to the thalamus, deep in the brain, and then to the prefrontal cortex, producing conscious perception of pain.

«Our work is the first to suggest that subplate neurons do more than bridge the gap between the thalamus and the cortex, forming the structure for future circuits,» Kanold said.

Called the mediodorsal thalamus (MD), the region appears to work with the prefrontal cortex — an area associated with planning and decision - making — to carry out tasks that require us to remember and process multiple pieces of information at once.

How the cells in the higher - order thalamus influence the sensory signals in the cortex has long been a subject of discussion,» explains Dr. Rebecca Mease, who also worked on the study.

During the working memory task significant increases in activation volume were observed in frontal and parietal association cortices as well as subcortical structures, including the caudate, globus pallidus, putamen, and thalamus.