Your autonomic nervous system—the part that handles all your unconscious bodily functions—operates in a delicate balance between its “fight-or-flight” sympathetic branch and its “rest ...

Harvard psychiatrist Nancy Rappaport often navigates challenging clinical problems by leaning on established theory. Lately ...

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) ...

GIANT, a genetically informed brain atlas, integrates genetic heritability with neuroanatomy. It shows strong neuroanatomical validity and surpasses traditional atlases in discovery power for ...

The nervous system is a complex network of neurons and cells that carry messages to and from the brain and spinal cord to various parts of the body. If administered early, gene therapy has the ...

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University have identified three subtypes of senescent skin cells, or zombie skin cells, which have been known to cause inflammation and promote diseases while also ...

Neurons are cells in the body that are responsible for transmitting electrical signals through the nervous system. Different types of neurons affect the ability to move, which begins as an impulse, or ...