Researchers have found that even after recovery, individuals who previously experienced depression may retain a heightened ...

Researchers have pinpointed the precise pathway in the brain that suppresses pain in times of threatening situations.

A midbrain structure responsible for eye movement has been discovered that also plays a key role in cognitive perception and ...

The novel cue-induced analgesia paradigm allowed a compelling identification of a brainstem circuit element, i.e., somatostatin-expressing neurons within the ventrolateral periaqueductal grey that ...

Researchers at the University of Glasgow just achieved what many thought impossible: transmitting light completely through an ...

Neurospirituality crosses multiple disciplines to study how and why the human brain has a sense of the divine. Evidence is ...

The midbrain, particularly the substantia nigra, is a hotspot for tau tangle pathology in PSP and for α-synuclein pathology in PD. The authors immunostained the brain samples with antibodies specific ...

Insects, Barron and Klein now argue, have midbrain-like structures, including a “central complex,” that seem to allow bugs to similarly model themselves as they move through space.

Midbrain Infarction: ((Left) Flair axial MRI; (Right) Diffusion-weighted MRI.Note the bright signal on the diffusion-weighted image in the ventral midbrain and cerebral peduncle. Infarction in the ...

This webinar will focus on generation of human midbrain organoids for the study of Parkinsons Disease. In order to simplify the workflow, an established method for 2-D differentiation of floor plate ...

The midbrain is the highest part of the brainstem. Its top is connected to the diencephalon and the bottom to the pons. The back is connected to the cerebellum. ...