Exploring the Human Nervous System (1963), produced by Churchill Films in collaboration with the National Committee for ...

For the first time, scientists have recreated the entire human nervous system’s pain circuit in the lab — from the skin’s nerve endings to the somatosensory cortex of the brain. This ...

Apr. 3, 2025 — Female hormones can suppress pain by making immune cells near the spinal cord produce opioids, a new study has found. This stops pain signals before they get to the brain. The ...

Key Enzyme in Lipid Metabolism Linked to Immune System Aging Apr ... Disease-Causing Variants in Non-Coding Regions of the Human Genome Apr. 17, 2025 — Researchers have successfully employed ...

A new study reveals how inflammation alters sensory neuron activity, heightening heat sensitivity and contributing to chronic ...

Scientists have identified a previously unknown type of neural stem cell (pNSC) that exists outside the brain and spinal cord ...

A scientific team has used millions of human cells to build neural circuits in the laboratory that sense painful stimuli and trigger suffering ...

Our ancestors’ ability to recognize water sources was crucial to their survival. As a result, the attraction to lustrous ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a relatively rare but very serious disease of the nervous system. A cure is not yet ...

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 ...