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11 Interesting Facts About the Brain and Nervous System
The brain interprets these sensory cues to understand ... length and numbers of the axons and dendrites can vary. The human nervous system is defined as two parts. They are the central nervous ...
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Human thought has a speed limit — and it’s surprisingly slow
For now, humans remain slow thinkers. We dream faster than we speak. We see more than we can process and we imagine more than ...
Scientists Are Developing Brain Implants That Could Revolutionize Parkinson’s Treatment
Brain implants, made from small clusters of brain cells, could help restore neural pathways damaged by Parkinson’s disease.
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What is the nervous system?
The nervous system is a central component of the human body, but most people don't spend much time thinking about it.
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Nervous system articles from across Nature Portfolio
The nervous system consists of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system (motor nerves, sensory nerves, cranial and spinal nerves, autonomic ganglia ...
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Brain articles from across Nature Portfolio
The brain is the part of the central nervous system that is contained within the skull. It is responsible for executive and cognitive functions and regulates the functioning of the other parts of ...
Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Are Everywhere—And a New Study Has Linked Them to Cell Death in Our Nervous System
The study is particularly significant because it could help explain the association between these plastic-derived chemicals ...
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There's a speed limit to human thought — and it's ridiculously low
Human brains take in sensory ... The peripheral nervous system — the network of nerves that deliver information between the brain and the body — takes in environmental information at over ...
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Progress and challenges in brain implants
A scientific team looks at the progress and challenges in the research and development of brain implants. New achievements in the field of this technology are seen as a source of hope for many ...
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New research shows that the heart has a mini-brain—its own nervous system that controls the heartbeat
The heart has long been thought to be controlled solely by the autonomic nervous system, which transmits signals from the brain ... strong similarities to human heart rate and overall cardiac ...
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Biotin may shield brain from manganese-induced damage, study finds
The B vitamin mitigates manganese neurotoxicity, which produces symptoms that resemble Parkinson's disease. The vitamin improves dopamine production in the brain and offers potential therapeutic ...
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Researchers figured out how many bits per second of data the human brain can process
Despite having over 85 billion neurons, the brain’s overall ... that this limited speed of human thought may have evolutionary roots. Early creatures with nervous systems used their brains ...