A new study sheds light on one of the most severe consequences of stroke: damage to the brain's 'cables'-- the so-called nerve fibers -- which leads to permanent impairments.

The suckers are also packed with sensory receptors that allow the octopus to taste and smell things that they touch—like combining a hand with a tongue and a nose. The researchers believe the ...

Pioneering research reveals the origins of the ventral nerve cord in early molting animals. An international team of ...

How does acute pain become chronic pain? These are not simple answers, but with a little explanation about how the nervous system works, you should be able to understand the basics. Your nervous ...

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 ...

Katherine Behl is a physician and the mother of a child with alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC) — an ultra-rare neurological disease that is exacerbated by temperature changes. Here, she ...

The term "nervous breakdown" originated during the 1700s, when scientists believed our nervous system caused mental health symptoms. This was a way to keep people out of asylums and to maintain hope ...

But ataxia can also be its own condition or disease. As a stand-alone condition, "ataxia is a degenerative disease of the nervous system," explains Andrew Rosen, chief executive officer of the ...

Niantic has developed a robust infrastructure for mapping physical spaces using its ... the company has focused on its Visual Positioning System (VPS), which utilizes images captured by users ...

Systemic delivery of adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors transduces the enteric nervous system. However, less is known on the mapping and morphological and neurochemical characterization in the adult ...

Dutch electricity transmission system operator (TSO) Tennet has published on its website an interactive online map showing the locations in the country where the power grid is most congested.