A new study by Vanderbilt investigators has uncovered a previously unknown biological mechanism: how tissues detect and ...

Scientists discover compounds in medicinal mushrooms that promise to slow Alzheimer's and Parkinson's with fewer serious side ...

Silence heals the brain and nervous system naturally by reducing stress, restoring sleep, and enhancing cognitive performance ...

How big they are: The smallest plants, known as desmids and picozoa, are single-celled algae that are less than 0.0004 inches ...

Medulloblastoma is one of the most common malignant tumors of the central nervous system (CNS) in children and adolescents.

Many brain functions, particularly the senses, are similar across different mammal species.

A new study sheds new light on these big questions, illuminating a general principle of neural processing in a mysterious region of the midbrain that is the very origin of our central serotonin (5-HT) ...

Figure 1: Generation of mice deficient for Gr in the nervous system. Figure 2: Mice lacking Gr in the nervous system display symptoms characteristic of Cushing syndrome including reduced size ...

After an initial 4–6 weeks of intravenous amphotericin B, transition to an oral azole agent to complete a minimum of 12 months of therapy is recommended, with voriconazole the preferred option for ...

"Initially, we observed microglia in non-CNS tissues but could not confirm their presence in the PNS (peripheral nervous system). This uncertainty drove over a year of rigorous investigation ...

Because, thanks to the integration of your nervous system with all your tissues and organs, your mind is effectively all over your body. Often, when people talk about the mind in terms of control ...