In turn, this could enlighten our understanding of the human nervous system, and what happens when these connections break down.

Researchers describe the first complete wiring diagram of the nervous system of an animal, the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans, used by scientists worldwide as a model organism. The study ...

The first stem cell culture method that produces a full model of the early stages of the human central nervous system has been developed by a team of engineers and biologists at the University of ...

Worm Wiring Diagram May Help Us Understand Our Own Nervous System Genes in the humble C. elegans also turn up in autism, schizophrenia and other human disorders ...