Is Inheriting Your Mom's Nervous System a Bad Thing? Not necessarily. "We are more likely to inherit the good and the bad parts of our mother's nervous system," Dr. Jones says.

“Our work unveils the ontogeny, evolution, and neuron size regulatory functions of PNS microglia,” said Dr. WU Zhisheng, first author of the study. Reference: Wu Z, Wang Y, Chen W wei, et al.

You Can Thank This Parent For Your Dysregulated Nervous System, Says Biology Don't worry — there are ways to treat a dysregulated nervous system, no matter which parent is responsible.

The somatic nervous system is in charge of voluntary movement, such as walking or using your hands. It’s also in charge of relaying information from your skin, ears, and eyes to your central ...

TThe fundamental unit of the nervous system is the neuron. Individual neurons are connected by synapses to form circuits. Evolution has driven the formation of ever more elaborate circuits to ...

In more complex vertebrates, this system then diversified, expanded and grew larger, he says. Previous studies had already begun to dismantle the idea of a simple nervous system in lampreys.

Intel has built the world's largest neuromorphic system, a computing system that is modelled after the human brain and nervous system. Code named Hala Point, the 1.15 billion neuron system advances ...

Drum roll please…I propose it’s your autonomic nervous system. What does your autonomic nervous system matter? When we understand how our autonomic nervous system (ANS) underlies everything we do, we ...

The more Monje has looked for a connection between cancer and the nervous system, the more she's found. Tumor cells often travel along nerve cells to other parts of the body, using them almost ...

A version of this article appears in print on , Section D, Page 2 of the New York edition with the headline: Neuron Blueprint: You May Have This Blobby Creature To Thank for Your Nervous System.