A doctor explains what nervous system regulation really means, how chronic stress affects the body, and what helps restore ...

While we’ve evolved to be able to respond well to immediate threats, our stress-response system is less able deal with the ...

Glial cells are an integral part of the human nervous system. They help support and nourish nerve cells, or neurons. Several types of glial cells exist. Glial cells are the “glue” of the nervous ...

Biologists have long puzzled over why organisms with similar numbers of protein-coding genes can differ so dramatically in ...

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 ...

Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute and Tufts University have engineered frog-cell constructs that autonomously assemble their own nervous systems and dramatically shift gene expression, producing ...