The peripheral nervous system comprises all neural structures beyond the brain and spinal cord, including sensory, motor and autonomic fibres that connect the central nervous system to receptors and ...

Your peripheral nervous system (PNS) is crucial to navigating daily life. It lets you walk, controls your eye movements, and rings your brain’s alarms when you step on a Lego brick. Yet researchers ...

Your brain gets all the glory while your other nervous system, the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) toils away in thankless obscurity. What’s the PNS? Oh, merely the neurons that live outside of your ...

In a study published in Cell, a research team led by Prof. Li Hanjie from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the presence of ...

This project has reached full capacity for the current term. Please check back next semester for updates. ATP-sensitive potassium channels (KATP) are downstream targets of opioid receptors in neurons ...

Research headed by teams at the University of Rochester Center for Translational Medicine and the University of Copenhagen describes for the first time how a spreading wave of disruption and the flow ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a new component of the peripheral nervous system that acts by increasing energy metabolism in the body. The finding paves the way for the ...

Central vertigo is a less common type of vertigo often associated with stroke, brain tumors, or other central nervous system conditions. A prompt diagnosis is important so you can get the right ...