The peripheral nervous system (PNS) is the system of nerves and ganglia outside the brain and spinal cord. The PNS consists ...

The processing of optical information in the retina of the eye, where the light-sensitive ... "This coordinated cooperation ...

A new study shows that the brain's visual system adapts to your goals, reshaping perception based on what you're trying to do ...

When you see a bag of carrots at the grocery store, does your mind go to potatoes and parsnips or buffalo wings and celery?

Sensory overload happens when you’re getting more input from your five senses than your brain can sort through ... Since MS is a condition that has to do with nerve impulses, it makes sense ...

A new study by biomedical engineers and neuroscientists shows that the brain's visual regions play an active role in making sense of information.

If the optic nerve of a newt is cut and its eye is turned through 180 degrees, the nerve regenerates and the animal sees upside down. Such results deeply affect our picture of how the nervous ...

Because, thanks to the integration of your nervous system with all your tissues ... “Bottom-up” (from your body up to your ...

The nervous system consists of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system (motor nerves, sensory nerves, cranial and spinal nerves, autonomic ganglia, and ...