A new federal initiative seeks to develop stem cell treatments and other technology to repair brain tissue damaged by stroke, ...

Researchers have unlocked the secrets of how brain stem cells enter and exit a resting state called "quiescence".

According to the British Medical Journal, there are at least three levels of brain function: The brain controls movement and ...

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.

The Department of Health and Human Services unveiled a program Thursday to advance brain-repair research and develop ...

Locked-in syndrome is caused by damage to a specific part of the brain stem known as the pons. The pons is a region in the brain stem containing nerve fibers that connect the medulla oblongata to ...

Scientists say they have very strong evidence that the adult human brain is capable of making new neurons, a point of ongoing controversy in neuroscience.

They supply the neurons with nutrients, form part of the blood-brain barrier, regulate the synapses and support the immune cells. However, a small proportion of astrocytes are able to produce ...

Grace Wethor was just 13 when she was given a bleak prognosis; The teenager, who had been struggling with headaches and seizures, was diagnosed with a glioma, a tumor in her brain stem.