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 ...

Worsened blood circulation from autonomic dysfunction may contribute to depressive symptoms, offering a new avenue for ...

Consider a house with the water main half shut. The faucets sputter. The toilet runs all night. The garden wilts. You could call a plumber for the faucet, a landscaper for the garden, a different ...

Study of 2,197 patients with resistant depression finds 95 percent improved once parasympathetic and sympathetic ...

Doctors usually focus on a person's average blood pressure, but research increasingly shows that how much blood pressure fluctuates from moment to moment is just as important. Excessive short-term ...

Nutritionist Deepsikha Jain explains how Shinrin-yoku not only connects you with nature but also heals from within.

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.

'In a low-risk group of babies born full-term, the autonomic nervous system and cortical systems appear to function well regardless of whether infants were exposed to labor prior to birth,' says Sarah ...

Vanderbilt researchers, including those from the Vanderbilt Brain Institute, have made significant strides in understanding how the enteric nervous system—sometimes called the "brain" of the gut—forms ...