Controlling autonomic nervous activity, including respiration, heart rate, and digestion, it is connected by the pons to the midbrain and is posteriorly continuous with the spinal cord.
In this structure, myelinated nerve fibers surround unmyelinated nerve fibers around the fourth ventricle. Injuries of its lateral part may cause vertigo, vomiting, or loss of coordination and injuries of its middle part may cause paralysis of the opposite side of the body. Controlling autonomic nervous activity, including respiration, heart rate, and digestion, it is connected by the pons to the midbrain and is posteriorly continuous with the spinal cord. FTP, identify this lowest portion of the brainstem.
In this structure, myelinated nerve fibers surround unmyelinated nerve fibers around the fourth ventricle.
{Medulla Oblongata}