If you can't eat a varied diet full of nutritious foods, "one of the best things you can do long-term for your brain health is just [take] a simple multivitamin," Nelson says. Nervous system and ...

Self-care has officially evolved. Gone are the days when a face mask and a glass of wine counted as peak relaxation (not that ...

When you're stressed, your body enters a ‘fight or flight’ response, activating the sympathetic nervous system. But you can counteract this with deep diaphragmatic breathing, which triggers ...

A new study sheds new light on these big questions, illuminating a general principle of neural processing in a mysterious region of the midbrain that is the very origin of our central serotonin (5-HT) ...

Think of your nervous system as your body’s “command center” – coordinating your thoughts, feelings, actions, and automatic body functions. When our nervous systems are stressed ...

Our bodies are full of nerves! How do they work? Why do we have an autonomic and a somatic nervous system? When do the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems kick in? And what's with the vagus nerve?

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a method that shows how the nervous system and sensory organs are formed in an embryo. By labeling stem cells with a genetic 'barcode', they ...

CSF oligoclonal bands is a test ordered by physicians when serious health concerns related to your central nervous system arise. Here’s what you need to know about it. If your physician suspects ...

Our next steps include extending the reconstructions to the full male central nervous system, enabling comparisons between individuals and uncovering neurons and circuits that differ between the ...