Lately, everyone seems to be talking about what happens when the nervous system becomes “dysregulated” – including a cascading array of ailments both physical and psychological. Google searches for ...

The warning on a box of cigarettes reading ‘Smoking Kills’ is not enough for the people who smoke regularly to shed their worries off through the smoke. Most of the people who are regular smokers or ...

My husband became a great cook during the pandemic. Me, not so much. I like the food I make, but when it comes to entertaining, I let my husband take over because he has mastered the art of cooking.

The clues were always there. Searing pain is often the first hint of pancreatic cancer. Mood and depression swings often accompany a cancer diagnosis ‒ and not just because patients are facing their ...

Our bodies are full of nerves! How do they work? Why do we have an autonomic and a somatic nervous system? When do the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems kick in? And what's with the vagus nerve?

The term “sympathetic nervous system overload” sounds daunting, but the root cause is pedestrian: stress. Stress is, of course, something we all experience all the time, but left unchecked, it can ...

Sleep can sometimes be a complicated beast, as according to the NHS, around one in every three Brits struggles with insomnia. But there is one unique trick doing the rounds on TikTok that’s allegedly ...

Picture this: You're walking alone late one night, down a darkened street after leaving a Halloween party. No one is around, and your surroundings are eerily quiet. Then, suddenly, you hear rustling, ...

For most, the idea that you might don a headset to zap your depression away or use electromagnetic pulses to sharpen your cognition seems better placed in a science fiction novel from the 1930s than ...