Researchers discovered that nerve injuries can alter the immune system throughout the body, and males and females react very ...

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 vagus nerve sprawls from the brain through the body, innervating our organs and managing life support and emotion. Sally Caulwell for Quanta Magazine The original version of this story appeared in ...

Even when your body is capable of high performance, interference, stress, and misalignment create an internal traffic jam.

Communication between the body and the nervous system is called interoception and it allows the brain to sense internal states, such as hunger, pain, or heart rate. The vagus nerve is an important ...

The abducens nerve is also known as the abducent or sixth cranial nerve (CN6). It controls the eye’s lateral rectus muscle, which moves the eye sideways, away from the nose. Where the pons (a band of ...

In diabetes, much attention goes to sugar control, insulin levels, and the threat of nerve damage. But a new study reveals something often overlooked—how the breakdown of nerve function in diabetes ...

In today’s fast-paced world, stress and irregular lifestyles can take a toll on our bodies, especially our nerves. Those experiencing anxiety, nerve discomfort, or increased stress levels might ...

A new study published in Cell on July 10 has reported the world's fastest high-resolution three-dimensional (3D) imaging technology for the entire body of small animals at subcellular resolution, ...