Tumors of the central nervous system (CNS) are the most common pediatric tumor type and the leading cause of cancer-related ...

In the words of Dr. Bessel van der Kolk: “After trauma, the world is experienced with a different nervous system. The survivor’s energy now becomes focused on suppressing inner chaos, at the ...

Your parasympathetic nervous system is often described as promoting your body's rest-and-digest state. Typically, your parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems collaborate to control your ...

The autonomic nervous system is known as the control center for involuntary bodily processes such as the beating of our hearts and our breathing. The fact that this part of the nervous system also ...

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.

Nervous-system precursor. On the basis of the proximity of the two cell types and the expression of genes that might allow for the secretion of chemicals, the researchers think that these arms ...