Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy and still perform the most important of their tasks. Researchers found that the neuronal energy conservation program determines the location and ...

New research reveals that brain cells use a muscle-like signaling mechanism to relay information over long distances.

In December 1993, former World Boxing Champion John Famechon, who had suffered a severe brain injury in August 1991, began participating in a new and novel multi-movement therapy ...

A network of nerves similar to wires runs all through the human body, from the tips of your fingers and toes, through your back inside the spinal cord and up to your brain. Specialized pain receptors ...

Ann Leech’s artwork, of an eye-catching anatomical heart in watercolour, was chosen by Elsevier in the USA in 2022 to be on ...

Clinical Physiology provides diagnostic methods to detect and evaluate dysfunction of various organs and systems in the body such as the heart, peripheral vessels, lungs, kidneys, gastrointestinal ...

The brain interprets these sensory cues to understand what’s going on outside and inside the body. This allows a person to use their body to interact with their surrounding environment and ...

When a child develops a brain tumor, early diagnosis is essential ... They have their own unique physiology and problems. Pediatric neurosurgery is exclusively practiced by approximately 300 surgeons ...

The spinal cord is the bundle of nerve tissue that extends from your brain and runs down your back to the L1 vertebra ... Understanding the basic anatomy of the five lumbar bones that make up your low ...

Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Malatya Turgut Özal University, Malatya 44210, Türkiye ...

Zebrafish are known to detect color and brightness with the pineal gland, which is part of the brain. How they do so is now being elucidated. We see color because photoreceptor cones in our eyes ...