The enteric nervous system (ENS) has gained broader visibility, notably through its designation as a “second brain” and growing interest in the gut ...

Your brain gets all the glory while your other nervous system, the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) toils away in thankless obscurity. What’s the PNS? Oh, merely the neurons that live outside of your ...

By examining genetic clues that linger in adult cells, scientists have now gained surprising insights into the developmental ...

In biology, the nervous system is a highly complex part of an animal that coordinates its actions and sensory information by transmitting signals to and from different parts of its body. The nervous ...

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 ...

Does Alzheimer’s start in the muscles? Research reveals that motor neuron mutations disrupt the neuromuscular junction ...