For instance, the somatic nervous system lets you control muscles and perceive touch, taste, smell, and sound. What's more, it can help you sense pain in a certain part of the body that actually ...

The five vital organs in the human body are the brain, heart, lungs, kidneys, and liver. Other organs include the gallbladder, pancreas, and stomach. Organ systems, such as the nervous system, support ...

They will learn how we look inside ourselves.

The five senses are familiar to us: sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell. Amelia Chapman says we should add at least two more to the list: proprioception and vestibular sense. Proprioception relates ...

We’ve turned survival responses into a black-and-white idea: pathology or wisdom. This is what we miss when we do that, and ...

Your sympathetic nervous system is one of the branches of your autonomic nervous system. It controls functions under unconscious control related to “fight or flight.” Your nervous system plays a ...