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What is the Autonomic Nervous System?
Why do we actually need an autonomic nervous system? Isn't one nervous system enough for everything?
16.06.2024
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- Glossary
Spinal nerves
Spinal nerves are the nerves that emerge from the spinal cord. The cell bodies of their neurons are located in the gray matter of the spinal cord.
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Spinal paralysis
This is the term used by doctors to describe a combination of symptoms that occur when the nerve cord in the spinal cord is severed. The location of the injury on the spine is decisive for its consequences: the body can no longer control limbs and organs whose innervation branches off from the spinal cord below the damaged area. Possible consequences range from partial paralysis of the limbs to complete loss of control over the rectum and bladder. Also called paraplegia or paraparesis.
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- Anatomy
The Brain Stem
Only thumb-sized, the brain stem regulates the body's vital systems.
05.08.2025
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- Motor Skills
Networks of Movement: Control Strategy, Tactics, Execution
Every arbitrary movement is planned, organized, and sent for execution in the brain.
01.12.2025
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- The Developing Brain
How Thinking develops
Rapid development: how the brain and mind develop in early childhood
18.03.2026
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- The Glymphatic System
When the Brain gets clogged with Waste
Not even a coffee cup full of “nerve water” can flush out the brain at night – but woe betide you if you don't.
06.11.2024
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- The Glymphatic System
The Brain’s Cleanup Crew
The glymphatic system is the brain's cleanup crew, flushing away waste products.
06.11.2024
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- News from the Institutes
Two Brain Areas Compete for Control
The locus coeruleus and the ventral tegmental area compete for control over the formation of memory content
14.03.2025
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- Percieve
- Hearing
From Wiggling to the wonderful Variety of Sounds
It is a long way from purely mechanical vibrations to the world of sounds and tones.
17.10.2025
