Advanced 3D reconstructions of the comb jelly’s aboral organ reveal a sensory system far more complex than scientists expected. The organ contains a wide variety of specialized cells and is closely ...

After enduring a two-year diagnostic odyssey, Gregory Maassen received a diagnosis of a postinfectious form of peripheral ...

Abstract: The peripheral nervous system (PNS) transmits sensory and motor information directly linked to a target organ or function and is thus a target for neural sensing. Neural sensing involves ...

Scientists at the University of California San Diego have discovered a path between the brain and the immune system that could potentially lead to new ways to ease heart attacks. They showed that ...

SHENZHEN -- Chinese scientists have, for the first time, confirmed the existence of microglia in the peripheral nervous system (PNS). This breakthrough provides novel insights into PNS development, ...

Addressing the question of whether and how immune cells (macrophages) in the central nervous system (CNS) traffic out, researchers have now identified a perineural pathway through which the HIV virus ...

Abstract: This paper presents an innovative, minimally invasive, battery-free, wireless, peripheral nervous system (PNS) neural interface, which seamlessly integrates a millimeter-scale, ...

Niemann-Pick type C disease (NPC) is a rare autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder, most often caused by biallelic pathogenic variants in the NPC1 gene (~95 %). While the central nervous ...

After years of work, cognition and neuroscience doctoral student Hailey Welch is—for the first time—the lead author of a study published in an academic journal, a paper appearing in Cell Reports, ...

The peripheral nervous system (PNS) is usually regarded as a set of ganglia and nerves that transmit information between the central nervous system and the body’s other systems, thereby supporting the ...

The 12 cranial nerves are generally considered to be components of the peripheral nervous system. However, the first and second cranial nerves (olfactory and optic nerves, respectively) are considered ...