
How the Brain Tells Apart Important and Unimportant Sensations
Several recent studies point to a small, long-overlooked structure in the brain stem as a crucial gatekeeper for the body’s signals
Lee E. Miller is a Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience at the department of neuroscience, physical medicine and rehabilitation and the department of biomedical engineering at Northwestern University. He was inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2016 and is current president of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement.
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