The ever-increasing need for nursing care due to the aging population necessitates the need for safe and efficient elder-assistant robots that can reduce the care burden on the societies. However, ...

Glial cells support neurological structures, function, cognition, behaviours, physical skills, and motor coordination.

This article investigates the design and stability analysis of the interval type-2 (IT2) sampled-data (SD) fuzzy-model-based (FMB) control system with the optimal guaranteed cost performance. An IT2 ...

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

Medical diagram of spinal cord. Anatomical infographic with different part of spine, nervous system and vertebrae. Cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral and coccyx spine. Cartoon flat vector illustration ...

Intriguing and incredibly unique, Octopuses are cephalopods with three hearts that pump blue blood throughout their eight arms. These intelligent sea creatures have multiple brains. Nine, to be exact.

Exposure to wildfire smoke can affect the human immune system, according to a new study that adds to mounting evidence of the potential health risks posed by increasingly larger and prolonged blazes.

In this article we build on these frameworks, and propose a model of yoga therapy that converges with Polyvagal Theory (PVT). PVT links the evolution of the autonomic nervous system to the emergence ...

Rising Stars for ME is funded by the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) and administered by Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Child and Family Services (OCFS). Rising ...

Despite the increasing interest in cardiac autonomic nervous activity, the normal development is not fully understood. The main aim was to determine the maturation of different cardiac sympathetic‐ ...

Most human herpesviruses are neurotropic and have the capability to cause serious acute and chronic neurological diseases of the nervous system. In this article, Gilden et al. review current ...

Similarly, they also indicate that the global signal in the brain is a key component of the autonomic nervous system's arousal response.