Toward the bottom of the brain are more primitive structures, including the cerebellum and brain stem. These also fulfill ... movement of the opposite (right) side of the body.

Two early-phase clinical trials demonstrate the safety and potential clinical utility of stem cell therapies to ease motor ...

These cells share important molecular and functional characteristics with neural stem cells of the brain. Peripheral neural stem cells have the same cell morphology, self-renewal and differentiation ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a method that shows how the nervous system and sensory organs are formed ...

Neurons are the cells in the brain responsible for sending messages to the rest of the body, and scientists have long thought that they are settled into one subtype once they develop from stem ...

Researchers can now generate brain cells from patients using stem cells, which gives them a clearer understanding of how schizophrenia develops Individuals with schizophrenia may have abnormally ...

Two new studies suggest that Parkinson's disease can potentially be treated with stem cells placed in a patient's brain.