When a stray thought niggles your brain, reminding you to stop biting your nails, you'll stop because you want to and because you can-your brain's cells have no trouble communicating the message to ...

Neurons are the specialized cells that allow our bodies to transmit impulses, like factories that process inputs. They send signals that help us catch a ball, recognize a favorite song or pull our ...

Using human cancer cells, tumor and blood samples from cancer patients, researchers have uncovered the role of a neurotransmitter in the spread of aggressive cancers. Neurotransmitters are chemical ...

THE Nobel prize has been awarded to these two men of science for work on the chemical transmission of nervous impulses. It was known that the effects produced by stimulating sympathetic nerves were ...

IF a foreign motor nerve is connected to a normally innervated muscle, the nerve fibres grow into it but do not establish intimate contact with muscle fibres, and are unable to transmit impulses to ...