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.

Chinese scientists have, for the first time, confirmed the existence of microglia in the peripheral nervous system (PNS). This breakthrough provides novel insights into PNS development, opening ...

In a study published in Cell on April 7, a research team led by Prof. LI Hanjie from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the presence ...

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 ...

Braz J Med Biol Res, July 2005, Volume 38 (7) 1077-1086 Effects of caffeine on the electrophysiological, cognitive and motor responses of the central nervous system A.C. Deslandes 1, H. Veiga 1, M.

Your peripheral nervous system is made up of all the rest of the nerves in your body. They carry input from your central nervous system to the rest of your body and vice versa.

In the peripheral nervous system, on the other hand, NPY was found to have the opposite effect, accelerating metabolism and, consequently, energy expenditure," Velloso explains. Accelerated metabolism ...

Hesperos’ development of this peripheral nervous system myelination model aligns with the three goals of the FDA Modernization Act 2.0 which aims to reduce, replace and refine alternatives to ...

The bill defines neural data as “information that is generated by measuring the activity of a consumer’s central or peripheral nervous system, and that is not inferred from nonneural ...