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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Add new Web site: CiteSeerX - Functional anatomy of thalamus and basal ganglia.	Yamini Chauhan	Nov 27, 2024
	Add new Web site: Journal of Neuroscience - The Central Thalamus: Gatekeeper or Processing Hub?	Gloria Lotha	Oct 18, 2024
	Add new Web site: University of California San Diego - Thalamus.	Gloria Lotha	Jun 13, 2024
	Add new Web site: Nature - The thalamus and its subnucleia gateway to obsessive-compulsive disorder.	Gloria Lotha	Apr 29, 2024
	Media added.	Michele Metych	Dec 01, 2023
	Add new Web site: Simply Psychology - Thalamus Anatomy, Function, and Disorders.	Aakanksha Gaur	Sep 14, 2023
	Add new Web site: Medicine LibreTexts - Thalamus.	Emily Rodriguez	Jun 07, 2023
	Cross-reference added.	J.E. Luebering	Mar 31, 2023
	Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Neuroanatomy - The Epic of the Thalamus in Anatomical Language.	Gloria Lotha	Mar 10, 2023
	Add new Web site: Cleveland Clinic - Thalamus.	Gloria Lotha	Jan 24, 2023
	Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Thalamus.	Gloria Lotha	Sep 26, 2022
	Article thoroughly revised and expanded in collaboration with Abhijeet Gummadavelli.	Kara Rogers Hal Blumenfeld	Sep 07, 2018
	Article thoroughly revised and expanded in collaboration with Hal Blumenfeld.	Kara Rogers Abhijeet Gummadavelli	Sep 07, 2018
	Add new Web site: Fact Monster - Science - Thalamus.	Gloria Lotha	Feb 28, 2011
	Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Thalamus Function.	Gloria Lotha	Feb 28, 2011
	New illustration added.	Kara Rogers	Jan 14, 2009
	Article revised.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	May 19, 2005
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998