Learn about the sympathetic nervous system, a branch of the autonomic nervous system that controls functions related to "fight or flight." ...

Memory loss, tremors, paralysis: When parts of the nervous system start to break down—or get broken—the consequences for human health can be staggering. Can we fix the nervous system, and how ...

Already, human brain and spinal cord organoids are used to study neurological and neuropsychiatric diseases, but they often mimic one part of the central nervous system and are disorganized.

The human nervous system, by our best estimates, contains 86 billion neurons. The C. elegans nervous system has 302 neurons. Now that’s a nervous system simple enough to really wrap our heads around.

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 ...