Your sympathetic nervous system is one of the branches of your autonomic nervous system. It controls functions under unconscious control related to “fight or flight.” Your nervous system plays a ...

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

Cold plunging looks extreme from the outside, but its effects are far more nuanced than shock value or toughness. In just one ...

Modern life often puts our nervous systems on constant alert. Endless notifications, tight deadlines, financial pressures, ...

A popular image shared by science-focused social media accounts is that of an image labeled as some variation on "the complete human nervous system dissection" or "a fully dissected nervous system." ...

Stress is a common part of life. It affects our mood and neurological system. Stress impacts the musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, and gastrointestinal systems. It also disrupts sleep and endocrinology ...

The first stem cell culture method that produces a full model of the early stages of the human central nervous system has been developed by a team of engineers and biologists at the University of ...

There’s a saying in gyms, maybe you’ve heard it—that you have to use your mind to control your body or else your body will control your mind. But what’s even better than using one to control the other ...

The sympathetic nervous system, which helps your heart and other vital organs function all the time, increases activity in response to danger or stress, preparing the body for extra demands. Stress is ...