“You have to ask: is this an animal that’s going to join the fruit fly, worm and mouse as a model organism to look at in the quest to better understand the nervous system?” he says.

you developed a new model organism for neuroscience research, the transparent jellyfish Clytia hemisphaerica. How do these jellyfish answer questions about neuroscience, the nervous system ...

In the on-going search for a better understanding of how the brain and central nervous system develop ... have uncovered a novel role for a non-visual opsin and a mechanism for environmental ...

The nervous system is a complex network of neurons and ... and colleagues from the University of Utah developed a fruit fly model of cocaine self-administration that can be used to explore the ...

The device embeds a light-sensitive 2D material-based charge-trapping layer that mimics the human visual system. More specifically, the same device is shown to be capable of optical data sensing ...

In case you’re still intimidated by talk of all things neurological, here’s a brief introduction to your nervous system ... ‘We gave them a visual cue before making breathing harder ...

This finding upends a long-held idea that organisms can’t engage in associative learning without a central nervous system ... Could the visual system learn that it should avoid the gray lines?

“It suggests that some of the neuronal machinery was being packaged into cells and used for some form of communication prior to the advent of a nervous system.” Dr. Musser said he was looking ...

What Is the Nervous System? Your nervous system is your body's main communication system. It sends messages from your brain to the rest of your body and helps you respond to changes inside and ...