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 ...

This diagram summarises how information flows from receptors to effectors in the nervous system.

Information from receptors passes along neurones, as electrical impulses to co-ordinators such as the central nervous system or CNS. The CNS is the brain and spinal cord. Muscles contracting or ...

Each part of the nervous system uses internal checks and balances to regulate its activity, responding to various factors like mood, health status, and the external environment.¹ These regulatory ...

Ariens Kappers' “Comparative Anatomy of the Nervous System”, of now more than fifteen years back. The present is a new treatise, retaining however the orientation which Prof. Kappers' earlier ...