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Third eyes, pineal glands, and your thalamus
Phil and I get back to the brain and brain bits, by talking about bits of your brain. Today is the diencephalon, with extra attention paid to your thalamus, a part of your brain that passes information around to just about every other part of your brain.
Here are a couple of articles about your pineal gland, AKA. Your third eye.
pineal gland | Definition, Location, Function, & Disorders
What our ancestors’ third eye reveals about the evolution of mammals to warm blood
Here’s a pleasantly short video about your thalamus.
2-Minute Neuroscience: The Thalamus
Here’s a popular article about how the thalamus turns out to be doing more than just passing information from one place to another.
New Role Discovered For Brain Region
Here’s a more technical article about how the thalamus turns out to do more than just pass information from one place to another.
Thalamic amplification of cortical connectivity sustains attentional control