The pathologist who examined Kwementyaye's body said he'd died from a haemorrhage at the base of the brain.
Human growth hormone is produced and released by the pituitary gland at the base of the brain.
They act on the base of the brain and the associated pituitary gland.
Parkinson's disease occurs when cells of the substantia nigra region in the base of the brain die, for unknown reasons.
What is known is that the pain emanates from the tiny trigeminal nerve at the base of the brain.
Pituitary glands – the oval, pea-sized organs at the base of the brain – are a particular challenge for stem cell researchers because they are so complex.
"The pituitary gland is located right at the base of the brain, and that's where all the hormones come from" in pregnancy, he said.
Dr. Leonard was still a graduate student when he began his studies of sex hormones, produced at the base of the brain in the pituitary gland.
Psychiatrists believe increasingly that panic is the result of a misfiring in a suffocation alarm system at the base of the brain.
Most occur in blood vessels at the base of the brain, but they tend to go unnoticed because they hardly ever cause symptoms.
It was, said Dr Cyril Courville, the chief of the three-man team, "a tiny bruise on the front stem at the base of the brain".
