A study reveals that touch-related sensations activate the nervous system most strongly, despite participants perceiving ...

In this Healio video, David G. Standaert, MD, PhD, discusses the keynote lecture given at the 2025 International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders.

Sport invites heightened states of activation, and so does parenting. Put them together, and there’s a lot of stimuli playing on your nervous system. Here are some possible resets.

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Design by Rumaisa Wajahath. The team of engineers and biologists aimed to develop an organoid that ...

The transneuron switches between roles linked to vision, planning, and movement. It also processes information through ...

Parents have experienced how newborns grab their finger and hold tight. This almost instantaneous response is one of the sweetest involuntary movements that babies exhibit. The newborn’s nerves sense ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

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 ...

The population yielding patients has previously been described. 4,6 Briefly, military or dependent patients were referred from armed-forces hospitals; patients from Veterans Administration and local ...

The brain is by far our most complex organ, with its billions upon billions of neurons that talk to each other through a vast network of synaptic connections. But there are simpler ways we can improve ...