Toward the bottom of the brain are more primitive structures, including the cerebellum and brain stem. These also ... the central nervous system. The peripheral nervous system extends body-wide ...

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 ...

Gene therapy in the central nervous system (CNS) is hindered by the presence of the blood–brain barrier, which restricts access of serum constituents and peripheral cells to the brain parenchyma.