The peripheral nervous system (PNS) is the system of nerves and ganglia outside the brain and spinal cord. The PNS consists ...

This allows the messages to be exchanged between your brain and body. Your peripheral nervous system is further divided into two main parts: the autonomic and somatic nervous systems. This is the ...

The human brain, often hailed as nature’s most powerful computer, is surprisingly slow when it comes to handling information.

The peripheral nervous system is the part of the nervous system outside the brain and spinal cord. It consists of nerves that carry information between the central nervous system and the ...

The brain’s meningeal lymphatic system plays a key role in clearing waste and transporting immune cells, but until now, how it develops was unclear.

There are two main endocannabinoid receptors: CB1 receptors, which are mostly found in the central nervous system CB2 receptors, which are mostly found in your peripheral nervous system ...

Inflammation is the body’s response to injury and infection. To better understand how the body’s nerves and neurons detect ...

Neuropathy is malfunction of the nerves connecting the central nervous system — the brain and spinal cord — to the rest of ...

A new study sheds new light on these big questions, illuminating a general principle of neural processing in a mysterious region of the midbrain that is the very origin of our central serotonin (5-HT) ...