human neuroanatomy; English text; Latin nomenclature; serial coronal sections at 1 millimeter intervals stained for Nissl substance and myelin presented as photomicrographs; representative high power photomicrographs and histogram of frequency distribution of cell diameters for each structure; six neuroanatomists developed a common nomenclature for the human thalamus, which was presented and illustrated along with the nomenclature of each of the participants and highlights of the discussion of each structure.