The brain stem, situated at the bottom of the brain, is made up of three main parts: the midbrain, pons, and medulla oblongata.

"Our vagus nerve really affects a lot of things," Dr. Allyson Coffin said. "If it's off balance, you will notice." ...

Instead, she harked back to her training in neuroscience. "I decided that a particularly absurd thing to do would be to knit a brain," she said. Karen Norberg's Knitted Brain Click here for an ...