An international team of researchers has discovered a new component of the peripheral nervous system that acts by increasing energy metabolism in the body. The finding paves the way for the ...

Your peripheral nervous system (PNS) is crucial to navigating daily life. It lets you walk, controls your eye movements, and rings your brain’s alarms when you step on a Lego brick. Yet researchers ...

For transient pins and needles sensations, Shepherd explained that the main culprits for the prickling feeling are large-diameter axons that respond to light, non-painful pressure. These nerves are ...

Your peripheral nervous system (PNS) is crucial to navigating daily life. It lets you walk, controls your eye movements, and rings your brain’s alarms when you step on a Lego brick. Yet researchers ...

If you have diabetes, kidney disease or a hormone imbalance, you may also have peripheral neuropathy. Millions of people across the United States suffer from this nerve disorder and approximately ...

With terrifyingly sharp teeth arranged around a circular mouth, lampreys look about as primitive a vertebrate as you could imagine. But a new study finds that the animals have a surprising similarity ...