Nervous System

One of multiple sets of eyes allows a box jellyfish to look up and stay safe in its mangrove home.

Future research on this protein could help find drugs for Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease.

Sea urchins may use the whole surface of their bodies as eyes, scientists now suggest.

Transplanted adult stem cells have been found to reverse paralysis associated with spinal cord injuries in lab rats.

The origin of the human brain has been traced back to primitive central nervous systems in worms and bugs, researchers now say.

Research finds pedophiles tend to be shorter, suggesting it all boils down to biology.

Sea sponges have many of the genes needed to make a nervous system; despite not having any themselves.

As people age, neurons have to yell at the muscles to whip them into action, according to a small new study.

Rats on a road trip have underscored what scientists have long suspected about highway driving—car and truck exhaust is just as bad for your heart as it is for your lungs.

The chances of a child developing a brain tumor and cancer elsewhere in the nervous system increase with the more younger brothers and sisters one has.