Bipolar disorder can feel like a storm that erupts from nowhere, yet for decades the brain circuitry driving those brutal ...

For more than a century, the story of the brain has been told as a tale of neurons, with every thought and memory traced to their electrical chatter. That narrative is now being rewritten as evidence ...

The first node sits in the peripheral nervous system. Sensory neurons in the vagus nerve detect damage in the heart and send signals upward. The researchers focused on a subset of vagal sensory ...

Voltage-gated sodium channels, particularly Nav1.7, are highly expressed in peripheral sensory neurons and are crucial for ...

Orphan Drug Designation applies to approximately 50,000 Patients who predominantly suffer from severe chronic pain due ...

From the touch of sand to the splashing of water, experiences that tap into multiple senses can help build intellect and ...

The human brain contains billions of connected neurons that collectively support different mental functions, including the ...

Arteries become clogged. Blood flow is restricted and oxygen is cut off. The result is a heart attack, the world's leading cause of death.

A newly discovered collection of neurons suggests the brain and heart communicate to trigger a neuroimmune response after a heart attack, which may pave the way for new therapies ...

In a study published in the journal Cell, Postdoctoral Scholar Saurabh Yadav, Assistant Professor Vineet Augustine and their ...

In mice, blocking heart-to-brain signals improved healing after a heart attack, hinting at new targets for cardiac therapy.

Heart attacks are often thought of as a plumbing issue, the result of a blockage preventing blood from flowing through one of ...