Engaging the brain’s plasticity by stimulating the locus coeruleus, a region in the brainstem, could be a clinically relevant approach to optimize the efficacy of cochlear implants in restoring ...

Brainstem structures forming the swallowing pattern generator (SPG) are intimately associated with the nucleus tractus solitarius (NTS). Distinct but interconnected neural circuits are involved in ...

Synaptic terminals of premotor neurons in the studied brainstem nucleus (blue). Axons of a marked spinal interneuron subpopulation terminating in a specific domain of this brainstem nucleus (pink).

Mice are prey animals, and while they must be able to move around looking for food, it is just as important that they can get to safety quickly—two opposite needs that are equally vital to their ...

However, the job of the endorestiform nucleus itself remains a mystery for now. Paxinos said he can only guess at its function, "but given the part of the brain where it has been found, it might ...

Researchers have developed a new imaging method, D-PSCAN, which enables minimally invasive, wide-field, high-resolution imaging of the nucleus tractus solitarii (NTS) in living mice. This ...

A device that restores hearing by electrically stimulating the brainstem’s cochlear nucleus when the auditory nerve or inner ear is damaged. Neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) A genetic disorder that ...

New insights into the opposing actions of serotonin-producing nerve fibres in mice could lead to drugs for treating addictions and major depression. Scientists in Japan have identified a nerve pathway ...