People with damage to the central nervous system often undergo rehabilitation therapy. James Fawcett and Armin Curt examine how such therapy might work in conjunction with experimental approaches that ...

When you’re nervous, your body will kick into overdrive to try to solve the problem itself. You’re flooded with adrenaline and your muscles start shaking. To help counteract this, intentionally slow ...

New research gives unexpected insights into how the nervous system controls leg movements in walking. These findings could aid in directing rehabilitation in stroke patients as well as the design of ...

Most of us know about the “fight or flight” response, the body’s built-in survival instinct. But that framework leaves out ...

If the development of our nervous system is disturbed, we risk developing serious neurological diseases, impairing our sensory systems, movement control or cognitive functions. This is true for all ...