The secret to a healthier and "younger" heart lies in the vagus nerve. A recent study coordinated by the Sant'Anna School of ...

Maintaining the heart’s connection to the vagus nerve may be a key defense against cardiac aging. Researchers showed that ...

A study reveals our brain development changes at ages 9, 32, 66 and 83.

New connections begin to form between brain cells almost immediately as animals learn a new task, according to a study published this week in Nature. Led by researchers at the University of California ...

Researchers explored a strong link between brain activity and eye blinking.Eye blinking is something like breathing, which ...

A single microscopic change in our DNA can permanently alter how the brain is built, locking in developmental problems that ...

A large-scale study of 5216 brains has found differences in the brains of men and women that might be linked to social and other abilities. Stuart Ritchie and coworkers reported in the 2018 journal ...

The latest review evidence shows the gut and brain communicate in complex, two-way ways, making it hard to know which comes first. Experiments in animals, changes in psychiatric drug effects, and ...

As teens spend less time with their friends in person, scientists are beginning to uncover how isolation may affect the ...

An international study led by Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies and published in Science Translational Medicineshows that ...