One of these recruited areas is the anterior thalamic nucleus. The UAB team led by Sandipan Pati, M.D., assistant professor of neurology, found that nearly all of the epileptic seizures detected ...

One of these recruited areas is the anterior thalamic nucleus. The UAB team led by Sandipan Pati, M.D., assistant professor of neurology, found that nearly all of the epileptic seizures detected ...

As neurosurgeons inserted long, thin, needle-like electrodes into the brain to map the location of the electrical storm that initiates an epileptic seizure, they also carefully positioned the ...

The effectiveness of a dramatic new approach, bilateral stimulation of the anterior nucleus of the thalamus, has recently been reported. [1] Wide experience in deep-brain stimulation (DBS ...

In 2018, DBS was approved as a therapeutic approach for epilepsy. The DBS procedure involves the precise insertion of slender electrodes into the anterior thalamic nucleus in both brain hemispheres.

Aside from olfaction, in all sensory processing, a sensory signal is received by a thalamic nucleus and then directed to the relevant cortical area. The involvement of thalamic nuclei in sensory ...