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 ...

Out of all the organs in the body, the gastrointestinal tract is the only organ to have evolved its only fully independent nervous system. That’s why this tract, which stretches from the mouth ...

The enteric nervous system is within your gastrointestinal tract. You've probably heard the phrase "fight or flight" to describe the body's response to an extreme, acute stressor. Your sympathetic ...

Weight training stimulates the reticulospinal tract (RST), which is the neural highway that controls movement and posture, thereby eliciting a higher response in the part of the body that is used ...

Neurogastroenterology is defined as neurology of the gastrointestinal tract, liver, gallbladder and pancreas and encompasses control of digestion through the enteric nervous system (ENS), the ...

The nervous system controls many functions in the body, including the urinary tract. Controlling those nerves with electrical pulses could theoretically restore proper bladder function. The challenge ...