Unlike the brain and spinal cord, peripheral nerve cells, whose long extensions reach the skin and internal organs, are ...

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

Peripheral nervous system articles from across Nature Portfolio The peripheral nervous system is the part of the nervous system outside the brain and spinal cord. It consists of nerves that carry ...

Peripheral nerve injury is one of the most common disorders of the nervous system. Alternatives to autologous nerve transplantation have attracted significant interest among researchers. In this study ...

According to Gerlach and Golgi, the nervous system represented an exception to cell theory, being formed not by independent cells but rather by a gigantic syncytium.

New research has overturned decades of belief about how dopamine communicates in the brain, showing it acts with pinpoint precision rather than broad diffusion.

A previously reported stimulation technique which elicits a unidirectionally propagated nerve action potential has been evaluated with repetition rates from 10 to 100 Hiz. Block of propagation in one ...