These intelligent sea creatures have multiple brains — nine, to be exact. In addition to a central brain located between its ...

But, unlike vertebrate organisms, the octopus’s nervous system is also decentralized, with around 350 million neurons, or 66 percent of it, located in its eight arms.

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Now that the technical challenges in analysing the fruit fly’s nervous system have been overcome, Katharina Eichler’s research group is working on two new data sets covering the entire central nervous ...

Until recently, the nervous system was not thought to be part of these duplicities, even when cancer had set up its primary residence in the brain. Neurons were simply the cancer’s victims.

The cardiac autonomic nervous system consists of 2 branches, the sympathetic and the parasympathetic systems, that work in a delicately tuned, yet opposing fashion in the heart. These branches differ ...

This indicates that the nervous system sets up a spatial, or topographical, map of each sucker. Octopuses can move and change the shape of their suckers independently. The suckers are also packed with ...

The octopus nervous system is among the most unusual on Earth. Unlike in other intelligent animals, it's highly distributed, with a significant proportion of its 500 million-odd neurons spread ...

This process involves mapping how the nervous system responds to various stimuli and refining the technology to deliver accurate, consistent feedback.

The heart has its own nervous system that regulates its rhythm, challenging previous assumptions. This finding could lead to new heart disease treatments. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.com ...

Electrical signals from the central nervous system, which relay instructions for movement, can then pass between these muscles, and be detected by electrodes in a newly installed prosthetic limb ...

The nervous system consists of a person’s brain and spinal column, which contain nerves. These nerves branch off from the spine in bundles (plexuses) and connect to other areas of the body.