The brain stem is a portion of the brain made of four distinct sections: the diencephalon, mesencephalon, pons, and medulla oblongata. Each of these sections has associated functions which are vital ...

Every year, millions of lives are suddenly, swiftly transformed by a stroke, which occurs when a blood vessel traveling ...

Rehabilitation helps restore some function, but in many cases stroke survivors live with permanent motor and cognitive impairments, as well as an increased risk of depression, dementia and other ...

Resting brain stem cells hardly differ from normal astrocytes, which support the nerve cells in the brain. How can almost identical cells perform such different functions? The key lies in the ...

Neural tissue engineering aims to mimic the brain's complex environment, the extracellular matrix, which supports nerve cell ...

Diesel exhaust particles can disturb the function of human brain immune cells, known as microglia, according to a recent ...

Your brainstem is the central apparatus of your entire nervous system. One portion of your brainstem is called the pons. The pons links your brain to your spinal cord. Your pons handles all of your ...

As we get older, our brains start to change in ways that make them increasingly vulnerable to disease – and a detailed new ...