The brain is made up of many different parts, each responsible for maintaining certain processes in the body or mind. The medulla oblongata is a small area of the brain stem. Though it may be ...

Your medulla oblongata plays a vital role in regulating those involuntary processes. Without this vital section of your brain, your body and brain wouldn’t be able to communicate with each other.

The glossopharyngeal nerve starts in the medulla oblongata in the brain and leaves the skull through the jugular foramen. The accessory nerve provides motor function to some muscles in the neck.

When we're stressed, the brain sends a signal to the adrenal medulla. That signal triggers the fight-or-flight response: increased heart rate, increased blood pressure, nausea, and other ...

The researchers assumed the brain's frontal cortex, which orchestrates complex thoughts and behaviors, was somehow communicating to a brainstem region called the medulla, which controls automatic ...

These cells were located in an area of the brain called the ventral medial medulla and received input from another area called the sublaterodorsal tegmental nucleus, or SLD. "The anatomy of the ...