How the brain largely maintains its function when neurons are lost—this is what researchers at the University Medical Center ...

The activity of the human brain is known to be closely connected to other physiological signals, such as heart rate and ...

In addition, sensory and sympathetic neurons and their precursors respond ... in neurons but also in nonneuronal cells within the nervous system, including microglia 15 and Schwann cells, for ...

The human brain makes up only 2% of our body weight. Yet it burns through 20% of our daily energy budget. That’s around 0.3 ...

Although emotions like fear and anxiety originate in your brain, they ultimately travel through your body and make your heart ...

In this study, we demonstrate the directed formation of small circuits of electrically active, synaptically connected neurons derived from the hippocampus of adult rats through the use of engineered ...

I Clinica Medica, University of Pisa, Italy. Purine compounds modulate sympathetic neurotransmission; this modulation decreases nervous discharge by stimulating presynaptic inhibitory adenosine ...

Alcohol’s central nervous system (CNS) effects are mediated through actions on ... systems combine to give noradrenergic “overdrive”, leading to an increase in sympathetic activity. Patients who stop ...

We show here that autoimmune T cells specific to myelin basic protein can protect injured central nervous system neurons from secondary degeneration. After a partial crush injury of the optic ...

Our overscheduling can feed into overstimulation of the nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system which manages our fight-or-flight response is designed to deal with times of stress.

A new study published in Nature Neuroscience provides evidence that aging and injury lead to the buildup of senescent neurons—commonly referred to as “zombie” cells—in the peripheral nervous system.

And they do so despite having extremely simple structures without a central control system (such as a brain ... a single-celled organism has no neurons. "But such simple control systems can ...