Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s tangle of touch sensors. David Ginty has ...

There are 12 cranial nerves in the human body. They occur in pairs on either side of the head and originate from the brain and brainstem rather than ... the larynx underneath a throat muscle called ...

Algorithms, freed from human programmers ... using AI to read the signals from neurons on their way to the brain, hacking the nerve pathways to restore mobility to paraplegics and patients ...

Some research suggests fibromyalgia is a nervous system disorder where an imbalance of brain chemicals like serotonin and norepinephrine ... U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Office on ...

Shorter slow wave sleep and rapid eye movement sleep were associated with decreased volume in Alzheimer disease-vulnerable brain regions.

Exploring the Human Nervous System (1963), produced by Churchill Films in collaboration with the National Committee for ...

A new study has created the first normative charts of brain functional development from birth to six years old, highlighting ...

In 1998, Dr. Voskuhl was searching for a molecule that would protect the brain from the effects of multiple sclerosis, in which the immune system attacks nerve cells, stripping them of their ...

Our lives are filled with binary decisions – choices between one of two alternatives. But what's really happening inside our ...

Next, a second group dissected that same brain region, dividing it into layers 1/400th the width of a human hair, and took pictures of each slice. Due to the delicate nature of the structure ...