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 ...

Damage to the brainstem could be behind the physical and psychological effects of Long COVID, a new study suggests. Brain scans of 30 Long COVID patients found they had damage to the region of the ...

Scientists have discovered that a part of the brain may be behind high blood pressure.

A specific region in the brainstem causes high blood pressure. By targeting oxygen sensors in the neck, they can lower it ...

When the hair rises on the back of your neck through a process called piloerection or something hurts so much your primitive response prompts you to run away, your body can completely block out pain ...

Okazaki, Japan – The communication between the brain and bodily organs is fundamental to emotion regulation and overall mental health. The nucleus tractus solitarii (NTS) in the brainstem is a ...

A group led by the Department of Neurosurgery at the Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, has successfully diagnosed ...

The midbrain is the brainstem's quiet yet critical component, governing everything from alertness and eye movements to our fundamental orientation in the world ...

Researchers at Duke-NUS Medical School have developed a detailed single-cell atlas of the developing human brain, offering a new reference point for evaluating lab-grown neurons used in Parkinson’s ...

MERF in Chennai celebrates 100 paediatric auditory brainstem implants, advancing hearing restoration for children with ...

The soft auditory brainstem implant (ABI) developed at EPFL is designed to gently conform to brain tissue, enhancing signal precision and patient comfort. Over the last couple of decades, many people ...

The authors conclude that damage to the brainstem associated with infection may help explain some of the symptoms of long COVID. Following infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, ...