Recent research shows that swearing can actually change how much pain people can handle. A 2024 review looked at studies on ...

Introduction: Downbeat nystagmus (DBN) is classically attributed to cerebellar pathology. Far less often, DBN arises from brainstem disease, with midbrain etiologies being exceptionally rare and ...

Every fleeting glance you take of your surroundings sets off a chain reaction inside your skull, shuttling retinal signals to a tiny midbrain hub. New findings show that this relay does more than ...

Add a comment + Open annotations. The current annotation count on this page is being calculated. Researchers have pinpointed the precise pathway in the brain that suppresses pain in times of ...

Harvard Medical School neurobiologist David Ginty spoke about the neural mechanics of touch and sense perception during the 2025 Science in Medicine Annual Lecture on May 15 in UW’s Foege South ...

Above: An image shows innervation, the process of supplying nerves to a specific part of the body. In the image the globus palladium (GPe) axon terminals appear in red, pre-synaptic terminals at the ...

Carnegie Mellon University researchers have used next-generation viral tools to visualize previously undiscovered neural pathways. The work was published in the Journal of Neuroscience. "This part of ...