Scientists develop lab-grown model of the human sensory pathway to investigate how pain signals are transmitted to the brain.

Researchers have recreated the human ascending sensory pathway in a lab dish, using organoids that model the key brain and ...

A team of researchers from more than ten laboratories in Europe, Asia and North America examined newly identified cells in mice called peripheral neural stem cells. These cells share important ...

Toward the bottom of the brain are more primitive structures, including the cerebellum and brain stem. These also fulfill ... communicating via a bundle of nerve fibers, the corpus callosum ...

They begin in the brain stem ... pathways, helps stroke patients regain movement in their arm or hand. A device for cluster headaches is also FDA-approved. While there is evidence that vagus nerve ...

His scanner maps bundles of nerve fibers that form hundreds of thousands of pathways carrying information from one part of my brain to another. Wedeen paints each path a rainbow of colors ...

Three nerves carry taste signals to the brain stem: the chorda tympani nerve (from the front of the tongue), the glossopharyngeal nerve (from the back of the tongue) and the vagus nerve (from the ...

Danger lurks at both extremes of glucose monitor readings: when sugar levels spike too high, the risks of diabetic complications such as nerve damage ... stomach to the brain stem and the ...

It damages two key brain cell types: mature oligodendrocytes, which normally produce myelin ­– the fatty insulating layer around nerve fibers ... they could stem disease-related changes.