Your brain, spinal cord, and nerves are the main parts of your nervous system. Important messages travel back and forth from your brain. They travel through your spinal cord and out to nerves that ...

The nervous system is the body’s direct communication system. It’s made up of the body’s many nerve cells. These cells work together in a network that sends and receives signals from one ...

Your central nervous system has a central subsystem that consists of your brain and spinal cord. All other portions of your CNS are part of your peripheral subsystem. The peripheral subsystem is ...

“A part of the cerebrum ... The clear fluid cushions the entire central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and continually circulates around these structures to remove impurities ...

A decentralized nervous system is one factor that helps octopuses adapt to changes, such as injury or predation, as seen in the case of an Octopus vulgaris, or common octopus, that was observed with ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have identified three types of nerve cells connected to the intestinal villi, suggesting ...

Stress is a common part of life ... to protect the nervous system and overall functioning of the body: Mindfulness and meditation: Mindfulness meditation trains your brain to be present and ...