A stem cell therapy for stroke restored neuron function and revealed how transplanted cells navigate the nervous system.

The human heart beats 60-100 times a minute, without you needing to pay any attention to it. Heart function is controlled by the brain’s autonomic nervous system (the parasympathetic and sympathetic ...

Research headed by teams at the University of Rochester Center for Translational Medicine and the University of Copenhagen describes for the first time how a spreading wave of disruption and the flow ...

The limbic system helps regulate emotional and social processing, as well as learning, motivation, and memory. It consists of structures that lie beneath the outer, wrinkly part of the brain and above ...

When a person thinks, speaks, eats, walks, or just sits comfortably with all bodily systems functioning normally, the billions of cells that make up the brain and the rest of the nervous system are ...