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 ...

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

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

Our society has gotten used to chronic stress, so we often don't recognize nervous system dysregulation for what it is.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...