A team has made a major breakthrough in the field of three-dimensional (3D) imaging of large-scale biological tissues. They ...

Nervous system dysregulation impacts health, linking stress responses to mental and physical conditions. Understand its mechanisms and management strategies.

The cardiac autonomic nervous system consists of 2 branches, the sympathetic and the parasympathetic systems, that work in a delicately tuned, yet opposing fashion in the heart. These branches differ ...

By Dr. Sapna Kamalani Leprosy is a chronic infectious illness that people have known about since ancient times, and it is ...

Find out about the sympathetic nervous system, which causes your fight or flight response, and learn more about how it functions.

While the central nervous system comprises neurons in the brain and spinal cord, the sympathetic, or peripheral, autonomic nervous system consists of neurons in ganglia (groups or clusters) throughout ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a new component of the peripheral nervous system that acts by increasing energy metabolism in the body.

Learn about the autonomic nervous system. Discover different health problems and symptoms that can affect this system.

Recent evidence suggests long COVID is primarily an autonomic nervous system disorder. But the devil is in the details.

Part of the goal of the Brain-Body Center, Wang says, is to dissect how the circuits of the central nervous system interact with the peripheral autonomic system to generate emotional responses to ...

Central nervous system — the brain and spinal cord Peripheral nervous system — the nerves that make your muscles move and tell your brain what your body is feeling Autonomic nervous system — the ...