Toward the bottom of the brain are more primitive structures, including the cerebellum and brain stem. These also fulfill critical functions. Running through parts of the brain are a dozen pairs ...

The surface area of the human cerebellum, with its tightly wound folds, is a whopping 80 percent of that of the cerebral cortex. In 1986, before this fact was established, Leiner and her colleagues ...

trying to determine whether a particular signaling pathway—the inositol trisphosphate (InsP3)/calcium signaling pathway—could be activated in nerve cells called Purkinje neurons. They are found in the ...

Scientists at the University of Maryland School of Medicine have made an important discovery about how inflammation in ...