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Gratitude isn’t just a nice mental exercise. Amelia Chapman of Mind Body Amore says it can build neural pathways in your brain. Chapman is an expert on the nervous system. She says it exists to ...

Partial paralysis occurs when nerve signals between the brain and specific muscle groups become interrupted, resulting in weakness or inability to move certain body parts while others remain ...

Many animals actively touch objects in their environment and respond to them by appropriate movement sequences. Jan Ache and Volker Dürr from Bielefeld University in Germany present a model in PLOS ...

Stanford Medicine investigators have replicated, in a lab dish, one of humans' most prominent nervous pathways for sensing pain. This nerve circuit transmits sensations from the body's skin to the ...

Migraines are far worse than a bad headache. As many as 14 percent of the world's adults may suffer from these excruciating episodes. They can involve unbearable throbbing pain, or intense pulsing ...

Depression and anxiety may heighten cardiovascular disease risk through chronic stress pathways in the brain and body.

An incredible new study led by a team from the Scripps Research Institute has discovered a novel communication pathway between fat cells and the brain. The findings reveal that the brain doesn’t ...

Neuroscientists at Stanford University have grown a tiny, two-centimeter-long ‘sausage’ made of human cells that may hold answers to one of medicine’s most persistent mysteries: how pain moves through ...