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A novel placebo-controlled study has found daily caffeine consumption can significantly reduce the volume of gray matter in ...

"I have yet to encounter a single human being who says, 'There's a bunch of plastic in my brain and I'm totally cool with that'," said one researcher.

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The autonomic nervous system connects the control from brain to heart through the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches. Central nervous system diseases can induce cardiovascular diseases mediated ...

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According to Live Science, researchers found that the hot gas and rock that erupted from the volcano had destroyed the flesh of one man to the point that it turned pieces of his brain tissue into ...

The peripheral nervous system is the part of the nervous system that branches out from but isn’t located in the brain and spinal cord. Demyelination can also result from exposure to toxins.

Motor neurons carry impulses away from the central nervous system (made up of the brain and spinal cord) and control the movement of the body. These neurons coordinate muscle activity. Motor neurons ...