Pioneering research has given a fascinating fresh insight into how animal nervous systems evolved from simple structures to become the complex network transmitting signals between different parts of ...

The immune system may play a fundamental role along with the central nervous system in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as 'Lou Gehrig's disease,' researchers report. The immune system ...

Each part of the nervous system uses internal checks and balances to regulate its activity, responding to various factors like mood, health status, and the external environment.¹ These regulatory ...

Others, however, believed that the peripheral nervous system (nerves that connect the body's extremities to the brain) played a larger role, as nerves in the moving limbs produced feedback signals ...

Octopuses are not much like humans — they are invertebrates with eight arms, and more closely related to clams and snails. Still, they have evolved complex nervous systems and are capable of a wide ...

There are key differences in how men and women respond to stress and process emotions and events through the nervous system. Amelia Chapman of Mind Body Amore says it’s not a one-size-fits-all ...

We’ve turned survival responses into a black-and-white idea: pathology or wisdom. This is what we miss when we do that, and ...

New educational initiative highlights root causes behind “hijacked” symptoms often misattributed to anxiety, hormones, ...