Spinal muscular atrophy affects the development of the nervous system more profoundly than was previously thought, a new ...

The Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders hosted a public workshop on June 21-22, 2010, bringing together key stakeholders, to present promising current and emerging technologies with ...

A key step towards reducing the burden of central nervous system (CNS) disorders is the identification of disease-specific biomarkers that can help predict, monitor, and guide treatment development.

Source: Photo by Pixabay / Pexels We all carry more than just cognitive memories throughout our lives. We carry nervous-system imprints, which include embedded energetic threads of survival, longing, ...

For over half a billion years, evolution has sculpted the nervous systems of bilaterian animals, equipping them with remarkable capabilities to process information, coordinate movements, and respond ...

An international team of scientists has uncovered a fascinating piece of the evolutionary puzzle: how the ventral nerve cord, a key component of the central nervous system, evolved in ecdysozoan ...

With terrifyingly sharp teeth arranged around a circular mouth, lampreys look about as primitive a vertebrate as you could imagine. But a new study finds that the animals have a surprising similarity ...