Movement is a complex process governed by a network of neuronal circuits spread across multiple regions of the nervous system ...

In a new study, scientists at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (LIN) and University Hospital Magdeburg demonstrated ...

The brain and spinal cord are your body’s central nervous system. The brain is the command center for your body, and the spinal cord is the pathway for messages sent by the brain to the body and from ...

This tissue contains millions of nerve fibers, or axons, that connect other parts of the brain and spinal cord and signal your nerves to talk to one another. A fatty material called myelin ...

"We want to know that connectome," Adesnik says ... prosthesis sends visual or auditory signals to the brain, or for people with spinal cord injuries, or even for people with neuropsychiatric ...

Device that links neural signals to fine movements provides unprecedented control over speed and direction in a video-game ...

The center collects, stores, and distributes pre- and postmortem tissues including brain, spinal cord, CSF, serum, blood cells, and urine. The center maintains inventories of its tissue and fluid ...

There are about 100 billion in the brain and 13.5 million in the spinal cord. The body’s neurons take up and send out electric and chemical signals to other neurons. 2. Neurons are made of three ...

Sensory neurones carry electrical signals - nerve impulses - towards the central nervous system (spinal cord and brain). The signal starts in a receptor which detects a change. Relay neurones ...

A reflex action follows this general sequence and does not involve the conscious part of the brain. This is why the ... which is located in the spinal cord of the CNS. Relay neurons connect ...