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central nervous system

Also known as CNS

main information-processing organs of the nervous system, consisting of the brain, spinal cord, and meninges

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Your central nervous system is made up of your brain, spinal cord, and the protective membranes surrounding them, and it serves as your body's main command center for processing information. It matters because it controls your thoughts, movements, and bodily functions by receiving signals from throughout your body and sending instructions back out.

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Research

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Editorial: A Microbial View of Central Nervous System Disorders: Interplay Between Microorganisms, Neuroinflammation and Behaviour.Frontiers in immunology · 2021Cossu D, Watson RO, Farina CDOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.816227
Molecular and Histologic Diagnosis of Central Nervous System Infections.ReviewSurgical pathology clinics · 2020Solomon IHDOI: 10.1016/j.path.2020.01.001
Central nervous system disorders producing hypotonia.ReviewPediatric annals · 1989Wasiewski WWDOI: 10.3928/0090-4481-19890701-06
Anatomy of the central nervous system.ReviewSeminars in oncology nursing · 1998Schnell S, Maher de Leon MEDOI: 10.1016/s0749-2081(98)80037-5
Ultrasound evaluation of the fetal central nervous system.ReviewObstetrics and gynecology clinics of North America · 1998Terrone DA, Perry KG JrDOI: 10.1016/s0889-8545(05)70023-1
SYNERGISM. WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS.ReviewJournal of pharmaceutical sciences · 1963ROSSI GVDOI: 10.1002/jps.2600520903
Small molecules as central nervous system therapeutics: old challenges, new directions, and a philosophic divide.Future medicinal chemistry · 2019Banks WA, Greig NHDOI: 10.4155/fmc-2018-0436
Central nervous system stimulants.Modern hospital · 1952VERNIER VG

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short name: CNS
Commons category: Central nervous system
NCI Thesaurus ID: C12438

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The central nervous system (CNS) is the part of the nervous system consisting primarily of the brain, spinal cord and retina. The CNS is named so because the brain integrates the received information and coordinates and influences the activity of all parts of the bodies of bilaterally symmetric and triploblastic animals—that is, all multicellular animals except sponges and diploblasts. It is a structure composed of nervous tissue positioned along the rostral (nose end) to caudal (tail end) axis of the body and may have an enlarged section at the rostral end which is a brain. Only arthropods, cephalopods and vertebrates have a true brain, though precursor structures exist in onychophorans, gastropods and lancelets.

The rest of this article exclusively discusses the vertebrate central nervous system, which is radically distinct from all other animals.