The Vagus Nerve’s Mysterious Role in Mental Health Untangled ...

Glaucoma, the leading cause of blindness, is often marked by loss of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). Necroptosis, a form of ...

somatic nervous system (SNS) - responsible for concious perception and voluntary movement of skeletal muscles autonomic nervous systems (ANS) - responsible for involuntary control of the body ...

In a groundbreaking development that could change the lives of thousands of people with spinal cord injuries, European ...

A sequence of stress signals among specialized clean-up cells in the brain could at last reveal why some immune responses can ...

Now, if you’re not familiar with the term "neural pathways," think of them like highways that connect different parts of your ...

The nerve pathway was 19 times out of 20 in the subpiriformis canal. In all cases the pathway was identical, with an oblique and vertical portion running down through the ischio-trochanteric channel.

Blood sugar and insulin levels also depend on the vagus nerve. As blood sugar levels rise, the vagus nerve stimulates the ...

“In future work, we plan to explore the interplay between the vagus nerve and the humoral pathway, which is a much slower pathway involving hormones and other signalling molecules in the blood.

What happens in addiction is that, through completely natural processes involved in all learning, the brain prunes nerve pathways of attention and motivation to preferentially notice, focus on ...