The enteric nervous system (ENS) is home to hundreds of thousands of individual neurons. Scientists finally know how these neurons "talk" to each other.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to claim lives throughout the world, the evidence is mounting that the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) affects the respiratory tract ...

The enteric nervous system relays psychological stress to intestinal inflammation. Cell, 2023; DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2023.05.001 ...

The nervous system is highly complex, and an electrical signal to the wrong nerve could have unintended consequences, like causing a random twitch, raising blood pressure or creating pain. There are ...

The nervous system is highly complex, and an electrical signal to the wrong nerve could have unintended consequences, like causing a random twitch, raising blood pressure or creating pain. There are ...

Gym-goers may get frustrated when they don't see results from weightlifting right away, but their efforts are not in vain: the first few weeks of training strengthen the nervous system, not ...

The human body’s nervous system is complex. Consisting of the brain, spinal cord and sensory organs, the nervous system acts as the communicator of the body, receiving information, deciding what ...

“The enteric nervous system (ENS) regulates the motor, secretory, and defensive functions of the gastrointestinal tract,” wrote the researchers.

Ansari, T., Sibbons, P., Rossi, M. et al. Investigation of Axonal Tracts Within the Central Nervous System in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Infants. Pediatr Res 45, 21 (1999). https://doi ...

Whether it’s a nervous sensation in the stomach before an important presentation or "butterflies" at the sight of a loved one, many people are aware of the connection between the gut and the brain.