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The complex interactions between the nervous and immune systems are pivotal in both health and disease, but the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying ...

Stress activates the body’s fight-or-flight response, which can carry over into sleep. Experts say positions like curling ...

When the body doesn't feel safe, it won't waste energy doing things optional for survival, like swallowing when not eating.

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While Alzheimer's disease is mostly considered a disorder of the brain, emerging evidence suggests that the condition also affects other organs of the body. Working with the laboratory fruit fly, ...

With Ishiba in place, the fear that the LDP could next lose its current majority in the Upper House in July is pervasive.

Disorders affecting the nervous system are diverse and include neurodevelopmental disorders, late-life neurodegeneration, and newly emergent conditions, such as cognitive impairment following COVID-19 ...

A woman experienced what she described as an "electric shock" sensation when kissing her husband, only to discover that this ...

A woman who got an 'electric shock' when she kissed her husband was told the symptom was cancer. Before surgery, Sarah Susak, ...

A small cluster of cells deep within our brains, called the locus coeruleus, affects how awake and attentive we are, how we ...