Researchers have created a digital topographical map of the cardiac sympathetic neural network, the region that controls the body's heart rate and its 'fight-or-flight' response. They hope this map ...

New 3D images reveal the clitoris’s complex nerve network, highlighting long‑standing gaps in medical understanding of the ...

A huge step forward in understanding how neurons communicate through extremely short proteins called neuropeptides will help scientists understand how our emotions and mental states are controlled, as ...

Your autonomic nervous system (ANS) is the part of your central nervous system (CNS) that controls unconscious activities like breathing and digestion. This system is always working, whether or not ...

Your nervous system is a network that sends signals between your brain and other parts of your body to control your body's movements and processes. This system includes your brain, spinal cord, and ...

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 ...

A new study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology has traced how the sympathetic nervous system, the same network that drives the body’s fight or flight response, can directly ...

From cutting-edge brain mapping to ancient breathwork techniques, science and tradition are converging to help us better regulate our nervous systems. New research is revealing how emotions, sleep, ...

A new paper in Comprehensive Physiology offers an encyclopedic review of research on vagus nerve stimulation for conditions from depression to rheumatoid arthritis. What type of medical intervention ...

Neurological diseases affect the nervous system, including the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves that carry signals throughout your body. These conditions can disrupt movement, thinking, mood, ...