In recent years, many engineers have been trying to develop hardware components that could emulate the functions of various ...

Next time you feel an itch, remember that your brain's vast network of neurons informs it whether it is an itch or pain. A ...

Peripheral nerves, i.e., outside the brain and spinal cord, are destroyed and cause burning, numbness, and weakness in hands and feet.” Difficulty with memory: Agnosia is one chronic ...

Resilience relies on the brain’s ability to regulate emotion, adapt, and recover. Myelin plasticity helps speed up and stabilize resilient brain responses. Genes like FKBP5 and BDNF affect how people ...

Researchers from the University of New Hampshire looked at the developmental process of the cerebral cortex—the outermost ...

Q I keep reading about how the vagus nerve has a lot to do with things like mood, digestion and keeping your brain healthy. Where is it located? Supposedly there is even a kind of technique where ...

Brain activity in vocalizing budgerigar parrots showed a pattern that harkened to those found in the brains of people.

The vagus nerves transmit information to the brain about movement or sensation from a variety of organs and physical regions. These include the heart, digestive system, lungs, larynx, ears ...

Interestingly, your gut contains around 168 million neurons, which are connected to your brain through your nervous system. The vagus nerve is one of the biggest nerves connecting your gut and brain.

Professor Mudher is using clever genetic manipulation in fruit flies to turn genes on and off in their nerve cells. This will reveal the genes responsible for helping tau (one of the proteins that ...