Solange Knowles recently revealed on her Instagram that she had to cancel a New Year’s Eve performance in South Africa due to health issues. Knowles said in her post that she had trouble figuring out ...

High conversion rates to Parkinson's, dementia with Lewy bodies, or multiple system atroph ...

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

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

Autoimmune autonomic ganglionopathy (AAG) occurs when your immune system attacks healthy nerve cells in your autonomic nervous system. It causes symptoms like dizziness or faintness. Autoimmune ...

Social media says you can reset your nervous system in seconds; science disagrees but offers calmer, proven ways to ease ...

The autonomic nervous system is known as the control center for involuntary bodily processes such as the beating of our hearts and our breathing. The fact that this part of the nervous system also has ...

Late in pregnancy, the human body carefully prepares fetuses for the rigors of life outside the protection of the womb. Levels of cortisol, a stress hormone, ramp up and spike during labor.

Autonomic dysreflexia (AD) is a potentially life threatening condition common in people who have experienced spinal cord injury in the upper back. AD occurs when an injury disrupts the nervous ...

A brain-activated, bone-derived hormone called osteocalcin regulates the acute stress response in rodents and possibly humans. A series of rodent experiments showed that even with abundant food and ...