Just a few weeks after conception, stem cells are already orchestrating the future structure of the human brain. A new ...

Toward the bottom of the brain are more primitive structures, including the cerebellum and brain stem. These also fulfill ... the central nervous system. The peripheral nervous system extends ...

Scans from patients revealed changes in brain connectivity, particularly in the frontal-limbic system (involved in executive functions) and the cerebellar cortex (linked to memory) throughout the ...

A new study in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging reveals that chemotherapy disrupts brain connectivity in ... alterations in the frontal-limbic system—critical for executive functions ...

For decades, scientists assumed that neural stem ... nervous system. In contrast to neural crest-derived stem cells, which have a limited self-renewal capacity, pNSCs closely resemble brain ...