A viral theory about chronic stress is hitting a nerve—literally—and it might explain why you're always on edge.

Feeling numb, unable to experience joy, sorrow, or even simple irritation, often goes unrecognized as a crucial signal from ...

On the flipside of fight-or-flight is rest-and-digest. It’s the body’s way of rebalancing itself after the danger has passed.

But, unlike vertebrate organisms, the octopus’s nervous system is also decentralized, with around 350 million neurons, or 66 percent of it, located in its eight arms.

Is Inheriting Your Mom's Nervous System a Bad Thing? Not necessarily. "We are more likely to inherit the good and the bad parts of our mother's nervous system," Dr. Jones says.

A Nordic deep-tech startup has announced a breakthrough in artificial intelligence with the creation of the first functional “digital nervous system” capable of autonomous learning. IntuiCell, a ...

You Can Thank This Parent For Your Dysregulated Nervous System, Says Biology Don't worry — there are ways to treat a dysregulated nervous system, no matter which parent is responsible.

Until recently, the nervous system was not thought to be part of these duplicities, even when cancer had set up its primary residence in the brain. Neurons were simply the cancer’s victims.

This indicates that the nervous system sets up a spatial, or topographical, map of each sucker. Octopuses can move and change the shape of their suckers independently. The suckers are also packed with ...

The central nervous systems of ecdysozoans, which includes the brain and ventral nerve cord, have perplexed scientists in the past. This is because some phyla within the group contain different ...