GENERAL HISTOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The thalamus (from the Greek thalamos or inner chamber) transmits 98 percent of sensory information to the cortex, including vision, taste, touch and balance; the only sense that doesn’t pass through this brain region is smell.

Detailed explanation-2: -Your thalamus is your body’s information relay station. All information from your body’s senses (except smell) must be processed through your thalamus before being sent to your brain’s cerebral cortex for interpretation.

Detailed explanation-3: -The thalamus is also important for touch-the ventral posterior nuclei relay information regarding touch and perception of bodily position to the primary somatosensory cortex in the cerebral cortex.

Detailed explanation-4: -The lateral geniculate nucleus receives visual sensory information from the retina and relays it to the visual cortex of the occipital lobe.