The nervous system is a complex network of neurons and cells that carry messages to and from the brain and spinal cord to various parts of the body. Scientists led by the Institute of ...

The body’s involuntary (autonomic) nervous system controls processes in the body that a person doesn’t consciously control. It’s always active and regulates a person’s heart rate ...

Market Snapshot Stock-market investors are getting nervous about this bond-market move that’s only happened twice in over 40 years Only twice since the early 1980s has the 10-year yield jumped ...

The fine control these almost-alien animals have over each of their eight arms is at least partially down to the segmentation of the nervous system circuitry that governs it. This discovery by ...

Nov. 2, 2020 — Octopuses are strange creatures, with three hearts, eight arms and a nervous system distinct from any other animal. These fiercely intelligent creatures are jam-packed with over ...

And, how does that information get to your body in time to respond? How does acute pain become chronic pain? These are not simple answers, but with a little explanation about how the nervous system ...

An international team of scientists has uncovered a fascinating piece of the evolutionary puzzle: how the ventral nerve cord, a key component of the central nervous system, evolved in ecdysozoan ...

and the peripheral nervous system (motor nerves, sensory nerves, cranial and spinal nerves, autonomic ganglia, and plexuses). A multi-ancestry genome-wide study of 158,036 people with bipolar ...

Effects on the autonomic nervous system were assessed by measuring heart rate variability (HRV) changes. Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia (RSA) and Root Mean Square of Successive Differences (RMSSD) were ...