The brain and spinal cord are your body’s central nervous system. The brain is the command center for your body, and the spinal cord is the pathway for messages sent by the brain to the body and from ...

The nervous system consists of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system (motor nerves, sensory nerves, cranial and spinal nerves, autonomic ganglia ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Inhibition in the Central Nervous System ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 214 No. 5 (May 1966), p. 102 doi:10.1038 ...

Information from receptors passes along neurones, as electrical impulses to co-ordinators such as the central nervous system or CNS. The CNS is the brain and spinal cord. Muscles contracting or ...

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Sensory neurones carry electrical signals - nerve impulses - towards the central nervous system (spinal cord and brain). The signal starts in a receptor which detects a change. Relay neurones ...

Taken into consideration with existing knowledge, it appears likely that vertebrate hearts have a more sophisticated 'brain' ...

"We will create interactive biomaterials that instruct the cells of the central nervous system to regenerate after a traumatic injury of the brain or spinal cord and ... a high level of ...

Medically reviewed by Amy Kwan, PTHyperpathia, hyperalgesia, and allodynia are three manifestations of central sensitization, ...

The result gives doctors a much-needed biomarker to discuss with patients considering spinal cord stimulation. A 10-minute brain scan can predict the effectiveness of a risky spinal surgery to ...

Unlike the peripheral nervous system, in which injured nerves are constantly regenerating, damage to the central nervous system leads to irreversible deficits due to the inability of the brain and ...