The nervous system is a complex network of neurons and cells that carry messages to and from the brain and spinal cord to various parts of the body. Scientists led by the Institute of ...

During the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease (PD), α-synuclein pathology may originate in peripheral organs and spread to the CNS. Using human tissue samples and multiple approaches in mouse ...

The nervous system is the body’s direct communication ... There are about 100 billion in the brain and 13.5 million in the spinal cord. The body’s neurons take up and send out electric and ...

Parasitic infections can invade practically any part of the body. Brain parasites, those that infect the central nervous system which includes the brain, are potentially the most damaging and the most ...

Market Snapshot Stock-market investors are getting nervous about this bond-market move that’s only happened twice in over 40 years Only twice since the early 1980s has the 10-year yield jumped ...

Octopus arms have segmented nervous systems to power extraordinary movements The large nerve cord running down each octopus arm is separated into segments, giving it precise control over movements ...

The fine control these almost-alien animals have over each of their eight arms is at least partially down to the segmentation of the nervous system circuitry that governs it. This discovery by ...

Among the challenges the new system would bring ... while 3-5 were at Northview and Broadmeadow. Woods wasn’t sure why the initial change to grade-level centers was made but speculated that ...

Cambrian fossils reveal ventral nerve cord structure in early ecdysozo Single ventral nerve cord identified as ancestral nervous system desig Paired nerve cords evolved later, aiding segmentation and ...

This discovery sheds light on the early evolution of multicellular communication and the origins of animal nervous systems. Researchers from the Burkhardt group at the Michael Sars Centre, University ...

New fossil discovery sheds light on the early evolution of animal nervous systems Groundbreaking research uncovers the origins of the ventral nerve cord in early moulting animals Date: January 10 ...

An international team of scientists has uncovered a fascinating piece of the evolutionary puzzle: how the ventral nerve cord, a key component of the central nervous system, evolved in ecdysozoan ...