When parts of the nervous system start to break down—or get broken—the consequences for human health can be staggering. Can ...

More scientific evidence is emerging to show that our gastrointestinal system interacts with our nervous system ...

For the first time, scientists have recreated the entire human nervous system’s pain circuit in the lab — from the skin’s nerve endings to the somatosensory cortex of the brain.

Chemical chatter from resident bacteria in the gut can hit the brain and nervous system in real time, shaping behavior and ...

Artificial nerves could be useful for a wide range of applications, ranging from systems for repairing damaged nerves to brain-computer interfaces, highly precise sensors and other advanced ...

Already, human brain and spinal cord organoids are used to study neurological and neuropsychiatric diseases, but they often mimic one part of the central nervous system and are disorganized.

New research reveals how your vagus nerve, gut microbiome and digital habits shape real, lasting happiness, from your immune ...

New research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) finds that prolonged and/or repeated ...

A team of scientists at the University of Michigan, Weizmann Institute of Science and the University of Pennsylvania recently developed the first full model of the early embryonic central nervous ...

n 1943, a pair of neuroscientists were trying to describe how the human nervous system works when they accidentally laid the foundation for artificial intelligence. In their mathematical framework for ...