You touch your face more times each day than you realise. If you do it more than usual, your body could be telling you that ...

A recent study in an animal model provides direct evidence for the role of the vagus nerve in gut microbiome-brain ...

New research provides direct evidence that the gut microbiome communicates with the brain through the vagus nerve.

The convergent inputs to the central projection of the trigeminovascular system, the trigeminal nucleus caudalis and the C1 and C2 regions of the spinal cord, collectively known as the ...

The default mode network (DMN) is a set of interconnected brain regions known to be most active when humans are awake but not ...

Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy and still perform the most important of their tasks. Researchers from the ...

The vagus nerve does it all—tells your lungs to breathe, controls your heart rate, and even forms the foundation for a whole ...

It works by switching off nociceptors in the peripheral nervous system, and therefore preventing pain signals getting to the brain. This represents a potential new breakthrough in a world which has ...

Pitt researchers hypothesized that a targeted epidural electrical stimulation therapy could be used to rescue lost nerve cell function by amplifying sensory inputs to the motor neurons and engaging ...

They can be debilitating, but most of the time, they are treatable without invasive measures. However, sometimes, a pinched nerve in the neck requires care from a medical professional. Individuals ...

Biochemical and histopathological findings in tissues from patients with chronic pancreatitis are similar to those observed in patients with other nerve fibre lesions. Experimental studies have shown ...