Most of the nerves in your body originate in the spinal cord. The 12 nerves in your head are different. They're called cranial nerves and they emerge, as symmetrical pairs, from the brain itself. Ten ...

TENS, or transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, is a pain relief method that uses mild electrical currents to block pain signals or change how you perceive them. It's used for back pain and ...

Vice Admiral Aurelio De Carolis, commander in chief of the Italian Fleet including aircraft carrier Cavour, told reporters in Vasco, Goa, that the Indian Navy has been doing an excellent job in ...

Over-ear headphones come in all sorts of shapes and sizes but can primarily be broken down into just two types: open-back or closed-back. Whether a pair of over-ears is open or closed isn't always ...

TThe fundamental unit of the nervous system is the neuron. Individual neurons are connected by synapses to form circuits. Evolution has driven the formation of ever more elaborate circuits to ...

The map provides a wiring diagram, known as a connectome, and is the largest and most complete connectome of an adult animal ever created. This work offers critical information about how brains ...

Intuitively, it is easy to think that reducing sitting would help with back pain, but previous research data is surprisingly scarce. The study from the Turku PET Center and UKK Institute in ...

The main function of the spinal cord is to carry nerve signals between your brain and the rest of your body. This includes motor commands and sensory information. The spinal cord also helps coordinate ...

The team that first recorded vagus nerve signals in humans has isolated the electrical activity of individual neurones responsible for cardiovascular regulation. Published in The Journal of Physiology ...

But how stimulating the nerve works is poorly understood And spinal cord stimulators have come with a range of safety concerns Place a finger on the hollow of your neck, where your jugular vein ...