A scholarly study with great depth, touching not only its immediate subject but also addressing broad questions about the whole organization of the brain...[I]t belongs on the shelves of all serious students of CNS.
Richard Maslund
Trends in Neurosciences
It is simply magnificent...All the chapters are excellent.
Vernon B. Mountcastle
Sherman and Guillery are both pioneers of research on the thalamus. Together they have come up with a work that I consider a paragon of its type. It is factual, informative, well documented, and thought provoking, and will be most useful to students and researchers alike.
Mike Gutnick, Professor of Neurobiology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
This volume serves as an excellent gateway into understanding the form and function of the thalamus as gatekeeper.
Warren M. Grill
Quarterly Review of Biology
The authors have a depth of knowledge and passion for their topic that shines through the pages...Their ideas should form the basis for the next leap in understanding what the thalamus is and why it exists.
Catherine A. Leamey and Mriganka Sur
Neuron
This is a superb work. The first edition was terrific. The second extends it to drive home a deeply fundamental point about the organization of the brain. This book must be read by all serious students of the nervous system.
Richard H. Masland, Professor of Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School
The thalamus is the gateway to cortical information processing, and the second edition of this book is a magnificent postern to our understanding the way in which it works. In particular, it allows theoretical neuroscience to greatly enhance our insight into cortico-thalamic feedback.
J. Leo van Hemmen, Department of Physics, Technical University of Munich
