This article discusses the autonomic nervous system, which is responsible for involuntary reactions such as heart rate, blood pressure and respiration. This is a Self-assessment article and comes with ...

The nervous system controls the activities of all body organs and tissues, receiving input from sensory organs and responding via effector organs. With around 100Â billion interconnected neurons, the ...

More than 30 years ago a team of scientists painstakingly traced the connections among each of the 302 nerve cells in the hermaphrodite Caenorhabditis elegans worm. But it took until now for someone ...

THIS comprehensive work, of nearly 1900 quarto pages carrying more than 700 text-figures, has grown out of Prof. Ariens Kappers' “Comparative Anatomy of the Nervous System”, of now more than fifteen ...