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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

These nerve endings are not exposed to cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). However, the process of communication between the brain and peripheral sensory nerves in migraines has largely remained a mystery.

Our nervous system is more than the brain and spinal cord. The nerves sprouting from the spinal cord innervate the organs and skin, forming a highway of information between the brain and the rest of ...