As you're waiting to visit a friend in the hospital,you overhear a physician talking to a patient's parents.You don't hear the entire conversation,but only bits and pieces.There is something about an accident and a question regarding nerves reattaching.The physician replied that the nerves do have the ability to regrow.From your education in psychology,you guess that the nerves were probably part of the:

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The peripheral nervous system includes the nerves that extend from the spinal cord and brain to the rest of the body. Injuries to these nerves are sometimes able to heal and regenerate, unlike injuries to the central nervous system (such as the spinal cord itself) or other parts of the brain (like the limbic system). The mention of nerves regrowing suggests that the injury might involve the peripheral nervous system.

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