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

Vagus means wandering, and the vagus nerve, after it leaves the base of the brain, sends branches to the ears, the throat, the heart, the lungs, and the digestive tract, with stops along the way ...

One of the more obvious first signs of MS is a problem with vision, known as optic neuritis where swelling damages the optic ...

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 ...

Jude. Motor output results from the coordinated activity of neural circuits distributed across multiple brain regions that convey information to the spinal cord via descending motor pathways. Yet the ...

Neurons are small cells responsible for communicating signals and transmitting energy between different parts of the brain and through neural pathways from the brain to the muscles and organs in ...