Think of your nervous system as your body’s “command center” – coordinating your thoughts, feelings, actions, and automatic body functions. When our nervous systems are stressed ...

From a pinprick to a warm breeze, every sensation you perceive begins its journey along this ascending sensory pathway. For the first time, scientists have recreated the entire human nervous system’s ...

LI Hanjie from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the presence of microglia in the peripheral nervous system (PNS) and identified ...

The nervous system consists of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system (motor nerves, sensory nerves, cranial and spinal nerves, autonomic ganglia ...

The nervous system is a complex network of neurons and cells that carry messages to and from the brain and spinal cord to various parts of the body. Millions of people worldwide are affected by ...

Nitric oxide (NO) is a gaseous signalling molecule that is involved in the regulation of the cardiovascular, immune and nervous systems ... GMP–protein kinase G system. If it is produced ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a method that shows how the nervous system and sensory organs are formed in an embryo. By labeling stem cells with a genetic 'barcode', they have ...

SHENZHEN, April 7 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have, for the first time, confirmed the existence of microglia in the peripheral nervous system (PNS). This breakthrough provides novel insights ...

Father of veteran who died by suicide calls for V.A. reform ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Learning in the Autonomic Nervous System ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 222 No. 1 (January 1970), p. 30 doi:10.1038 ...

A new study found that an artificial intelligence reading label system improves ophthalmologists' diagnostic accuracy for retinal diseases and could be valuable in future medical education. A new ...