During human response conflict–competition between multiple conflicting actions when a
mistake could be made–a specific pattern of brain electrical activity occurs over the medial …

Deficits in cognition are a core feature of many psychiatric conditions, including
schizophrenia, where the severity of such deficits is a strong predictor of long-term outcome …

Recent evidence from monkey models of cognition shows that the magnocellular
subdivision of the mediodorsal thalamus (MDmc) is more critical for learning new …

Growing access to large-scale longitudinal structural neuroimaging data has fundamentally
altered our understanding of cortical development en route to human adulthood, with …

The function of the human mediodorsal thalamic nucleus (MD) has so far eluded a clear
definition in terms of specific cognitive processes and tasks. Although it was at first proposed …

Dense amnesia can result from damage to the medial diencephalon in humans and in
animals. In humans this damage is diffuse and can include the mediodorsal nuclei of the …

Motor thalamus (Mthal) is implicated in the control of movement because it is strategically
located between motor areas of the cerebral cortex and motor-related subcortical structures …

The mediodorsal nucleus of the thalamus (MD) has been implicated in executive functions
(such as planning, cognitive control, working memory, and decision-making) because of its …

How do emotional events readily capture our attention? To address this question we used
neural tracers to label pathways linking areas involved in emotional and attentional …

The thalamus receives input from 3 distinct cortical layers, but input from only 2 of these has
been well characterized. We therefore investigated whether the third input, derived from …