The spinal cord is adjacent to and below the medulla ... the brain. These motor signals travel down the internal capsule, and then cross over to the other side of the body in the brain stem.

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Age impedes the ability of the brain’s stem cells to churn out new cells, but the study’s authors found that reducing the activity of a particular gene rejuvenated these stem cells , allowing ...

The lower back part of your brain is called your hindbrain, and in severe cases, parts of the hindbrain are missing. Your hindbrain includes your cerebellum, pons, and medulla oblongata.

They do each of these things on the basis of sophisticated processing of sound, smell, touch and vision, organised and run by a brain composed of about 140,000 neurons—more than the 300 or so ...

Signals from those muscles control robotic joints, so the prosthesis is fully under control of the user’s brain. The system enabled people with below-knee amputations to walk more naturally and ...

In the modified cells, a selected NPD risk gene is mutated so that it no longer ... Resting brain stem cells hardly differ from normal astrocytes, which support the nerve cells in the brain.

Neuroscientists at the University of Barcelona set about on a search for brain areas involved in chess-related tasks so that surgeons could avoid them when removing a tumor ...

There are over 100 different types of brain tumours. Tumours can start in any part of the brain or spinal cord. They are usually named after the type of cell they develop from. Read about the ...

This morning, surgeons at the University of Manchester temporarily placed a thin, Scotch-tape-like implant made of graphene on the patient’s cortex—the outermost layer of the brain.

By Mekado Murphy ‘Transformers One’ | Anatomy of a Scene The director Josh Cooley narrates a sequence from his film. By Mekado Murphy ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ | Anatomy of a Scene The ...

Brian Mann is NPR's first national addiction correspondent. He also covers breaking news in the U.S. and around the world. Mann began covering drug policy and the opioid crisis as part of a ...