THE lecturer commenced by giving a short sketch of Bichat's views of the division of life into organic and animal life, and pointed out how that division naturally led to the conception of two ...

Researchers have created a digital topographical map of the cardiac sympathetic neural network, the region that controls the body's heart rate and its 'fight-or-flight' response. They hope this map ...

The ticking of the biological clock is especially loud in the ovaries—the organs that store and release a woman's eggs. From age 25 to 40, a woman's chance of conceiving each month decreases ...

The sympathetic nervous system was thought to have evolved with jawed vertebrates. But lampreys—jawless, parasitic fish that suck out the blood of their hosts—have a simple one, per recent research.

'In a low-risk group of babies born full-term, the autonomic nervous system and cortical systems appear to function well regardless of whether infants were exposed to labor prior to birth,' says Sarah ...