The mechanisms by which antidepressants and other emotion-focused medications work could be reconsidered due to an advance in the understanding of how the gut communicates with the brain. "The ...

The mechanisms by which antidepressants and other emotion-focused medications work could be reconsidered due to an important new breakthrough in the understanding of how the gut communicates with the ...

The idea that the nervous system passes messages from one nerve cell to another only through synapses — the points where the cells link up end to end — is changing. Two studies show how messages can ...

The vagus nerve is actually not a single nerve but a vast network of about 200,000 nerve fibers, said Kevin J. Tracey, ...

Photomicrograph of dorsal root ganglia (DRG) neurons from a newborn rat. A research team led by Johns Hopkins Medicine has created the first map showing the communication network among DRG neurons in ...

Decoding motor intentions directly from within peripheral nerves may enable more natural and intuitive control of prosthetic limbs. In the study, researchers successfully interpreted signals from the ...

Your nervous system controls things like heart rate, digestion, memory, and your stress response. While food can’t treat or cure nervous system conditions, certain nutrients help your nerves ...

When a person loses a leg above the knee, the nerves that once moved that leg don’t simply go quiet. They keep firing. The brain still sends signals down through what remains, still attempts to flex ...