Your peripheral nervous system (PNS) is crucial to navigating daily life. It lets you walk, controls your eye movements, and ...

This new “connectome” could bring researchers one step closer to understanding how nerves connect to organs throughout the ...

A University of Alberta-led team has identified a new way to treat post-surgical pain in animals and human cells, in a bid to ...

Neurology is the branch of medicine that deals with disorders of the nervous system, which include the brain, blood vessels, ...

Medically reviewed by Michael Menna, DO Key Takeaways The body's organ systems include your circulatory and respiratory ...

The peripheral nervous system involves the nerves that send and receive messages to and from the central nervous system. The central nervous system comprises the brain and spinal cord.

A non-opioid designer molecule for treating chronic neuropathic pain by calming hyperactive pain-sensing neurons in the peripheral nervous system has had promising results in a preclinical study ...

Recently, Sahoo and his RU-N research team made a breakthrough, using a peptide to help nerve cells in both the peripheral and central nervous systems regenerate.

The results have recently been published in the scientific journal Neuron. The human nervous system is composed of two parts, namely the central and peripheral nervous systems.

Sciatic neuropathy is a type of peripheral neuropathy. Peripheral neuropathy is any damage that occurs in the peripheral nervous system, which includes all the nerves outside of the spinal cord ...

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 ...