The brain stem, illustrated in orange above, connects the main part of the brain to the spinal cord. (Image credit: Shutterstock) The team focused on the brain stems of mice to build on research ...

There are about 100 billion in the brain and 13.5 million in the spinal cord ... Neurons are made of three parts Neurons receive signals in a short antennae-like part called the dendrite, and ...

And neuroscientists examining the structure and function of particular parts of the brain have found various differences, on average, between people who have psychiatric diagnoses and those who do ...

A new study finds that microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate at higher levels in the brain than in the liver and kidney.