Anatomical overlap of respective brain regions suggests a joint network for attention and eye movements. Here, the authors show that gaze aligns with the acoustics of attended natural speech and ...

The primary finding was the astonishing cell type diversity in more evolutionarily ancient brain areas, specifically in the midbrain, hindbrain and hypothalamus. Indeed, more cell types were ...

responsible for higher brain functions such as vocal syntax. The midbrain also transmits information between the thalamus and the spinal cord. The yellow area is the cerebellum, which regulates ...

The research, published today in Nature, outlines how scientists at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at UCL studied a midbrain area called ... To explore how the brain controls behavioural strategies ...

Xu said. Serotonin is primarily synthesized by neurons in the dorsal Raphe nucleus (DRN) in the midbrain. Serotonin neurons in the DRN project to numerous brain regions, including the arcuate of ...