Your sympathetic nervous system is one of the branches of your autonomic nervous system. It controls functions under unconscious control related to “fight or flight.” Your nervous system plays a ...

All the nerves and nerve cells outside your central nervous system make up your peripheral nervous system. Its task is to relay information from your brain and spinal cord to the rest of your body and ...

Pulling your hand away from a hot object, blinking because it's very bright or kicking when someone taps the tendon below your kneecap - these are all innate reflex actions. They happen rapidly, you ...

The first stem cell culture method that produces a full model of the early stages of the human central nervous system has been developed by a team of engineers and biologists. The first stem cell ...

Researchers at the University of Bath and Keele University have invented a new composite material that can help neural stem cells to grow. The material has potential for use in new treatments for ...

Researchers claim to have developed a transistor that can mimic the way synapses work in the human nervous system. The research could open the way to new generations of neuro inspired computers ...

Human Nervous System Trivia is a great app with a slightly misleading name. Although the app contains facts about the nervous system that would come in handy during a trivia night, it actually serves ...