Last time, I wrote about the true nature of 'fatigue' and the concept of Qigong. Today, I will talk about a certain mechanism that is inherent in the body itself.Why do we get a fever when we catch a ...

Your nervous system is like a highway. When the roads are clear and well-maintained, traffic flows smoothly. Messages travel from your brain to every cell in your body without obstruction. We obsess ...

New 3D images reveal the clitoris’s complex nerve network, highlighting long‑standing gaps in medical understanding of the female body.How big is the clitoris? Where exactly is it located? And how is ...

The brain, for long, has been understood as one complex organ made up of several interconnected regions. However, in a new study, researchers found that the br ...

MANHASSET, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Inflammation is the body’s response to injury and infection. To better understand how the body’s nerves and neurons detect inflammation, researchers at Northwell ...

The fastest nerve fibers in the human body relay signals at speeds approaching 250 miles per hour, a rate that still leaves measurable delays when a baseball player tries to swing at a 95-mph fastball ...

Like a highway system, the vagus nerve branches profusely from your brain through your organs to marshal bodily functions, including aspects of mind such as mood, pleasure and fear. It is late at ...

The sympathetic nervous system, which helps your heart and other vital organs function all the time, increases activity in response to danger or stress, preparing the body for extra demands. Stress is ...

In the previous article, "AI is reading the 'style of the nerves'," I discussed how human nervous states manifest in language as the shape of questions, metaphors, humor, and the rhythm of dialogue.

Now, neuroscientists at Stanford University have taken a huge step towards solving that problem. They grew human cortical ...

A recent study by the Hector Institute for Translational Brain Research (HITBR) at the Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH) in Mannheim provides the first detailed cellular insights into how ...

Diseases of the nervous system refer to disorders that affect any part of the central nervous system (brain, spinal cord or cranial nerves) or peripheral nervous system.