thalamus
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- n large egg-shaped structures of grey matter that form the dorsal subdivision of the diencephalon
- Why not operate on the thalamus direct instead of risking damage to the frontal lobe? The big difficulty was getting at the thalamus without wrecking three inches of brain on the .
- All animals have a thalamus, but the higher animalsabove all, mandeveloped superimposed layers of brain tissue which exercise some control over the thalamus.
- Very low current was sent through the wires, stimulating the thalamus, which indeed awakened the higher brain.