When a person is at rest, meditating or reading a book, the parasympathetic nervous system is at work. Also known as the "rest and digest" system, the parasympathetic nervous system is responsible for ...

A doctor explains what nervous system regulation really means, how chronic stress affects the body, and what helps restore ...

Your sympathetic nervous system is one of the branches of your autonomic nervous system. It controls functions under unconscious control related to “fight or flight.” Your nervous system plays a ...

On social media, the vagus nerve often gets billed as the gateway to nervous system nirvana: It’s your ticket to better rest, relaxation, and health if you “stimulate” it correctly. Where did this ...

Assistant Professor, Director, Neuro-Mechanical Intelligence Laboratory, Dept. of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering, Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, West Virginia ...

Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute and Tufts University have engineered frog-cell constructs that autonomously assemble their own nervous systems and dramatically shift gene expression, producing ...

Luis Mojica’s Food Therapy connects eating habits to trauma and the nervous system, offering a new way to understand cravings ...