Your sympathetic nervous system is one of the branches of your autonomic nervous system. It controls functions under unconscious control related to “fight or flight.” Your nervous system plays a ...

An important part of the human experience is striving for higher achievements and deeper understanding. In science, deeper understanding can have practical applications for health and ameliorating the ...

A popular image shared by science-focused social media accounts is that of an image labeled as some variation on "the complete human nervous system dissection" or "a fully dissected nervous system." ...

Neuroscientists at Stanford University have grown a tiny, two-centimeter-long ‘sausage’ made of human cells that may hold answers to one of medicine’s most persistent mysteries: how pain moves through ...

A new Northwestern University study using patient nervous tissue and lab-grown human neurons has uncovered how a key disease ...

The first stem cell culture method that produces a full model of the early stages of the human central nervous system has been developed by a team of engineers and biologists at the University of ...

The sea lamprey looks like it’s from another planet, but this ancient creature has a surprising amount in common with humans ...

When you’re faced with a challenge or problem at work or in life, does your response lead you toward success or failure? The answer may depend on your nervous system and your inner state. That message ...