The higher the blood pressure is, the more frequently they send action potentials to the midbrain informing it just how much pressure the artery is feeling.
Symptoms of Schizophrenia appear when one of the neural circuit situated in the midbrain, called Substantia nigra, overproduce neurotransmitter called Dopamine and disrupts the balance between secretion of Dopamine and Acetylcholine.
To settle the debate researchers mapped gene expression in different bits of starfish anatomy, looking specifically for the genes expressed in the forebrain, midbrain and trunk of other bilaterians.
The brainstem actually has three main components — and I know this is getting to be a lot of vocabulary here — you have the midbrain, the pons, and the medulla oblongata.
We usually refer to the substantia nigra as if it's in a single location, but there are actually two of these regions in the brain, one on each side of the midbrain.
Once your brain receives sensory information, it sends a motor signal down the upper motor neurons through the corticospinal tract in the midbrain, and cross to the opposite side at the medulla before continuing down the spinal cord.