In a study published online today in Nature, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine describe the first complete wiring diagram of the nervous system of an animal, the roundworm ...

The central nervous system consists of the brain and spinal cord. The central nervous system controls thought, movement, and emotion, as well as breathing, heart rate, hormones, and body temperature.

A new study, in this week’s online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , shows an incredible degree of biological diversity in a surprising location, i.e. in a single neural ...

Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), working closely with researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have mapped out the structure of an important protein involved in ...

Responding to environmental stimuli is crucial to the survival of organisms and often manifests as alterations in the structure and function of the nervous system. When and how information from the ...

The fine structure of elements of the nervous systems of adults and protoscolices of Echinococcus granulosus is described. The lateral nerve trunks are composed of numerous unmyelinated fibers without ...

ORIENTATION of cells and fibres in the cerebral cortex is a well-known phenomenon. It is not generally appreciated, however, that a similar organization is present throughout the nervous system of ...

A fractal, according to Franco-Polish mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot, is ‘a way of seeing infinity’. Simply put, it is a pattern that appears to self-replicate indefinitely, constantly reproducing an ...