Antibodies are able to activate human nerve cells within milliseconds and hence modify their function -- that is the surprising conclusion of a new study. This knowledge improves our understanding of ...

For more than 1,500 years, nerves were thought to function through the action of 'animal spirits'. In the seventeenth century, René Descartes conceived of these 'spirits' as liquids or gases, and used ...

Takashi Baba, Alejandro Alvarez-Prats, Yeun Ju Kim, Daniel Abebe, Steve Wilson, Zane Aldworth, Mark A. Stopfer, John Heuser, Tamas Balla Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United ...

Your nervous system contains millions of nerve cells, called neurons. Neurons are highly specialised to transmit messages from one part of your body to another. All neurons have a cell body and one or ...

A paralyzed man with a spinal cord injury to the C7 vertebrae is able to move his fingers again. Surgeons at Washington University School of Medicine rerouted working nerves in the patient's upper ...

It's interesting that while the robotic arm picked up most of the attention this week, doctors at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have come up with another unique way to restore ...

An international research team led by scientists from Bern and Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin has identified a previously unknown function of the intestinal nervous system. The study reveals ...

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