This article discusses the autonomic nervous system, which is responsible for involuntary reactions such as heart rate, blood pressure and respiration. This is a Self-assessment article and comes with ...

Seeing the inner workings of a hand, or the nervous system surrounding the spleen, doesn’t seem appealing to most people. However, “Gray’s Anatomy,” the corpus of medical students and artists for over ...

Click on the labels below to find out more about your nervous system and senses. Your spinal cord can be divided into four sections shown in green, blue, pink and turquoise. Nerves emerging from these ...

Neuroanatomy is the study of the relationship between structure and function in the brain and nervous system. One of the ways that neuroanatomy studies are carried out is by using other organisms as ...

The nervous system controls the activities of all body organs and tissues, receiving input from sensory organs and responding via effector organs. With around 100Â billion interconnected neurons, the ...

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 at the University of ...

Immune privilege of the central nervous system (CNS) is explained by the absence of dendritic cells or other resident antigen-presenting cells (APCs) that are capable of leaving the CNS parenchyma and ...