In “Nervous System,” the Chilean author Lina Meruane’s second novel to be translated into English (in both cases by Megan McDowell), the narrator, Ella, archives the loss of her unnamed ...

Jefferson’s “Constructing a Nervous System,” a companion to her earlier “Negroland,” explores the materials used to make identity and art.

NeuroPAL, which uses genetic methods to "paint" neurons with fluorescent colors, permits, for the first time ever, scientists to identify each neuron in an animal's nervous system, all while ...