Scientists have discovered that a part of the brain may be behind high blood pressure. The lateral parafacial region sits in ...

Rapid neurologic and clinical decline can have a vast differential diagnosis. In this unique case, a man in his mid-70s was found unresponsive at home and progressed to brain death within 36 hours ...

New research suggests spinal cord and brainstem are essential for processing touch signals as they travel to the brain The sense of touch is essential to almost everything we do, from routine tasks at ...

Writing, driving a screw or throwing darts are only some of the activities that demand a high level of skill. How the brain masters such exquisite movements has now been described in the journal ...

Two-year-old is part of a clinical trial for testing a radical auditory device — -- A deaf toddler who underwent surgery to have a radical auditory device implanted into his brainstem to help him ...

ME/CFS and the closely related long COVID could be caused by damage to the brainstem, according to a new scientific theory. If their new model turns out to be right, the scientists behind it suggest ...

Exercise fights off stress by increasing levels of the brain protein galanin. Exercise fights off stress by increasing levels of the brain protein galanin, according to research in mice recently ...

Migraine auras manifest differently, with visual disturbances being the most common, followed by sensory experiences; language difficulties and motor, retinal, or brainstem auras are less frequent.