How the human brain generates subjective bodily experience remains a fundamental question in cognitive neuroscience. The cingulate cortex and precuneus (CC/PCu) have been implicated in bodily awareness and self-related processing, yet the functional architecture and causal relevance of these regions and the circuit mechanisms supporting conscious bodily states remain unclear. Here, we combined...
Recent developments in intracranial EEG allow direct recordings from the human thalamus, offering new insight into thalamocortical relationships in the human brain. In this study, we applied direct intracranial electrical stimulation (iES) to the mid-thalamus, within or close to the mediodorsal nucleus, to examine its impact on conscious experience and causal brain connectivity in 30 patients...