A new brain prosthesis can read out inner thoughts in real time, helping people with ALS and brain stem stroke communicate ...

The brain is made up of many different parts, each responsible for maintaining certain processes in the body or mind. The medulla oblongata is a small area of the brain stem.

Unlike other therapies, Deep Brain Reorienting works to resolve traumatic shock, opening new pathways for healing from trauma and PTSD.

These may be signs of a brain stem stroke. Since your pons plays a part in regulating your sensory, balance, and motor functions, any disruption of these functions can signal a problem in the pons ...

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 ...

A new paper looks outside this brain region and reviews the various brain pathways that meet in the brain stem to control feeding behavior, using a technique that offers an unbiased look at the ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as “junk,” thought to serve no real purpose. In a new study in Cell ...