Known as the second brain, your gut has influence over your emotions and physical health. Housed within the enteric system ...

Heart function is controlled by the brain’s autonomic nervous system (the parasympathetic and sympathetic branches ... included cells that use different neurotransmitters to communicate ...

Dec. 18, 2024 — Dancing lowers the depression associated with Parkinson's disease, and the benefits can be seen in multiple ways, a new study ...

The nervous system consists of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system (motor nerves, sensory nerves, cranial and spinal nerves, autonomic ganglia ...

Human attention is the foundation of the digital economy, powering everything from A.I. to international trade.

Recognizing serious symptoms can help you get the treatment you need. The term "nervous breakdown" originated during the 1700s, when scientists believed our nervous system caused mental health ...

Communications along the brain-gut axis involve neural pathways as well as immune and endocrine mechanisms. The two branches of the autonomic nervous system are integrated anatomically and ...

But ataxia can also be its own condition or disease. As a stand-alone condition, "ataxia is a degenerative disease of the nervous system," explains Andrew Rosen, chief executive officer of the ...

Lying in bed trying to fall asleep proved to be Joni Ogle’s hardest feat of the day. Feeling tense and unable to calm her ...