Neuroimaging evidence enhances understanding of the subcortex’s role in the neural mechanisms of working memory updating, providing new insights into midbrain function.

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Transforming growth factor (TGF)-α is neurotrophic for midbrain dopaminergic neurons in vitro. Here I investigated whether a null mutation in the TGF-α gene affects the normal development or ...

Collicular midbrain hub is ancient The superior colliculus sits just above the brainstem and appears in fish, birds, and mammals alike, hinting at an ancestry stretching half a billion years. Its ...

Tau hyperphosphorylation and conformational changes in the brain parenchyma start around seven months. Tangle-like pathology is mainly observed in the brain stem and spinal cord, and to a lesser ...

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The human brain is the most complicated organ that nature has ever created: 100 billion nerve cells and many more contact points between them provide our brain with capabilities that no supercomputer ...

Neuroscience Midbrain somatostatin-expressing cells control pain-suppression during defensive states Nanci Winke Frank Aby Daniel Jercog Thomas Bienvenu Coline Riffault Rabia Bouali-Benazzouz Juliette ...

The dorsal part of the midbrain is primarily involved in sensory processing, particularly related to vision and auditory processing, and includes superior and inferior colliculi (Bjorklund and Dunnett ...