Maha Taylor, the founder of Psychosomatic Recovery, describes what they do as a combination of emotional coaching and ...

Everyone knows the feeling of an overreaction. You get a comment from your boss, or misread tone in your partner's text, and ...

A new review article summarizes the wide-ranging, evolving potential of devices that modulate vagus nerve activity.

Stimulating your vagus nerve is the latest wellness trend, but how do you actually do it? And is it actually helping?

My husband became a great cook during the pandemic. Me, not so much. I like the food I make, but when it comes to entertaining, I let my husband take over because he has mastered the art of cooking.

Pediatric complex regional pain syndrome forces clinicians into the difficult position of asking children to move through ...

Two Northeastern University researchers want to make life better for people who've experienced serious physical trauma, the ...

The vagus nerve is how the body tells the brain that you're not in danger. "When vagal signalling is strong, heart rate slows ...

Your nervous system is like a highway. When the roads are clear and well-maintained, traffic flows smoothly. Messages travel from your brain to every cell in your body without obstruction. We obsess ...

Each part of the nervous system uses internal checks and balances to regulate its activity, responding to various factors like mood, health status, and the external environment.¹ These regulatory ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A few weeks ago, we discussed cortisol, so I wanted to spend this week exploring the nervous ...

Your brain is very good at time travel. At any given moment, it might be replaying what already happened or rehearsing what ...