In May 2018, the Brainstem Society celebrated its last meeting in Washington DC (USA) as a satellite symposium within the 31 st International Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology. The International ...

Converging and extensive evidence suggests that the limbic-brainstem regions receive direct perceptual information bypassing early sensory cortical systems and play a central role in innate behaviors, ...

Cholinergic transmission is essential for survival and reproduction, as it is involved in several physiological responses. In the auditory system, both ascending and descending auditory pathways are ...

aDepartment of Neurology and Centre for Experimental Neurological Therapy, S Andrea Hospital, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy A 20-year-old man was admitted to hospital in May, 1998, ...

A brainstem is a small, hidden piece of brain that does not get as much love as it should. Even with the recent explosion in brain research, other parts of the brain get more attention and therefore ...