New 3D images reveal the clitoris’s complex nerve network, highlighting long‑standing gaps in medical understanding of the female body.How big is the clitoris? Where exactly is it located? And how is ...

Cambridge researchers created miniature brain-and-spinal-cord systems in the lab that can send signals and even trigger tiny muscle contractions. They discovered that human neurons gradually lose ...

The abducens nerve is also known as the abducent or sixth cranial nerve (CN6). It controls the eye’s lateral rectus muscle, which moves the eye sideways, away from the nose. Where the pons (a band of ...

The musculocutaneous nerve innervates the muscles in front portion of the arm. These include the coracobrachialis, the biceps brachii, and the brachialis. The nerve originates from spinal nerve roots ...

Fascinating nervous system imaging reveals previously unseen obesity-related nerve damage in mice and humans — and some of it ...

The human body is full of elegant designs that seem almost too perfect to be real. But once in a while, nature throws in a curveball. Deep in the human anatomy lies a peculiar nerve that has baffled ...