We were born into a worldview that treats existence like a machine made of isolated parts, using policies, funding levers, ...

An international research team led by scientists from Bern and Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin has identified a previously unknown function of the intestinal nervous system.

The autonomic nervous system plays an important role in the modulation of cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmogenesis. Decades of research has contributed to a better understanding of the anatomy ...

A new study has revealed that more than half of all people in the United States live with a disease or disorder that affects the brain or nervous system.

The entire body of a sea urchin is what researchers are now calling an “all-body brain,” with neurons that function as a ...

Abstract: This investigation aimed to clarify the effects of the frequency of resampling of the RR interval and length of the analysis interval to simplify the analysis of heart rate variability (HRV) ...

Robots that can sense and respond to the world like humans may soon be a reality as scientists have created an artificial ...

They are members of the phylum Echinodermata, which first appeared during the Cambrian explosion. Their list of close relatives includes starfish, sand dollars (themselves irregular, flattened sea ...

Stem cells in the nervous system are self-renewing cells that have the capacity to produce all, or a restricted set of, the neural cell types (neurons and glia) in the nervous system. Stem cells can ...