What is the Thalamus? - Sensory Processing, Consciousness, Attention

In this video, Dr. Kushner breaks down the brain's middleman - the thalamus. In addition to projecting sensory information onto the cortex, the thalamus helps the brain decide what to pay attention to and what it can ignore.
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➡️Timestamps:
00:00 Thalamus
00:21 Where is the Thalamus (Thalami) Located?
01:34 What Are the Functions of Thalamus?
04:48 How Does the Thalamus Relay Auditory (Hearing) Information to the Brain?
06:41 How Does the Thalamus Relay Visual (Sight) Information to the Brain?
08:22 How Does the Thalamus Relay Tactile (Touch) Information to the Brain?
10:18 How Does the Thalamus Relay Gustatory (Taste) Information to the Brain?
11:52 What May Explain Why Smell Bypasses the Thalamus?

[@PsychExplained]

Check your understanding: Sensory information from the eyes are relayed through the thalamus to the _______________ cortex, located in the _________ lobe.
A. somatosensory cortex; occipital
B. visual cortex; paietial
C. auditory cortex; temporal
D. gustatory cortex; frontal
E. visual cortex; occipital

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E.

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E

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E.

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Hello Doctor please create a video about basal ganglia direct pathway indirect pathway
also explain GPI and GPE structure of basal ganglia

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[@rebeccasager9122]

thanks for your video! I was really hoping to find another video, focusing on attention and consciousness with respect to the thalamus. Any chance you’re working on such a video?

[@PsychExplained]

Hi! Unfortunately not. There are some really good videos on RUclips that take a deep dive into the thalamus. Mine is more of an overview.

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[@syedaslam2856]

Hi Dr. Kushner
One of my cousin is diagnosed by "Infarct involving the left medial thalamus" what may be the reason causing this impairment

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My father was overdosed on hospital, went to cardiact arrest, no brain damage on mri But now now he has been in a vegative State in 6 month. 😢
How Can you stimulate the thamulus when you are in a vegetive stage?

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Thalamus in the center of the brain!
Would be like BT burying telephone junction boxes in the middle of the road under all the cables and pipes

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Please make videos on human memory in details. Your videos helping me in many ways. Thanks in advance :)

[@PsychExplained]

Hi Bhumika, Thank you for the kind words. I cover memory formation in my video, Hippocampus. Is there a different topic within memory you would like me to cover?

[@BAT_24]

@@PsychExplained thanks for replying..yes in this video you have covered explicit memory only, please do include implicit memory (procedural and priming). Also disorders and mathematical modeling of memory.:)

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Can psychiatric drugs damage the thalamus?

[@PsychExplained]

Hmm I’m not sure about this connection.

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