Inside MIT's Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center, on the springy blue mat of the gymnastics room, an unconventional anatomy ...

In the second world war, the physician Henry Beecher observed that some of his soldier patients, despite being injured on the ...

Researchers have conducted one of the largest eye studies in the world to reveal new insights into retinal thickness, highlighting its potential in the early detection of diseases like type 2 diabetes ...

Researchers are paving the way for the design of bionic limbs that feel natural to users. They demonstrate the connection ...

Guillain-Barré Syndrome is a rare neurological disorder where the body’s immune system—which normally protects it from ...

Movement is a complex process governed by a network of neuronal circuits spread across multiple regions of the nervous system. These regions, including the cortex, basal ganglia, brainstem, and ...

The peripheral nervous system is the part of the nervous system that branches out from but isn’t located in the brain and spinal cord. Demyelination can also result from exposure to toxins.

Motor neurons carry impulses away from the central nervous system (made up of the brain and spinal cord) and control the movement of ... Interneurons have a multipolar structure that allows them to ...

Researchers at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology) in Italy and Imperial College London in the UK are paving the way for the design of bionic limbs that feel natural ...

The CNS includes the brain and spinal cord, and the PNS is made up of all the ... Long-term heavy drinking has been found to negatively affect the nervous system – for example, by altering neuron ...

The paralysis must be from a cervical spinal cord injury ... research” in devices that interact with the nervous system for the treatment of “debilitating neurological conditions such as spinal cord ...