Silent cells deep in your spinal cord may hold a surprising key to healing after devastating injuries and brain disease. A ...

Do you remember Dr. Lewis Thomas, the renowned physician-writer? Back in the 1970s, Dr. Thomas wrote an elegant book of essays, The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher, in which he poetically ...

The term “nervous breakdown” is no longer used—“mental-health crisis” is the nomenclature du jour—but I think I had one two years ago. My journey into the psychological night was precipitated by a ...

Healing from any injury involves a delicate balance between scarring and inflammation — two processes that can wreak havoc as well as make repairs. When the injury is to the brain, the balance is that ...

Neurologists are exploring medications that would help the brain recover after a stroke or traumatic injury. Credit...Fabio-Consoli Supported by By Rachel E. Gross The first thing Debra McVean did ...

When I was 16, my grandmother’s physique puzzled me. Her shape suggested obesity, but her limbs and face contradicted my observation. I asked my father, a gastroenterologist and professor of medicine ...

“Go outside” or “touch grass” are common rejoinders deployed in online arguments these days. And, at least for those of us whose brains have probably melted from spending too much time on an app where ...

When was the last time you read a book—not for a class, not because your professor guilt-tripped you, but because you wanted to? If you just had a flashback to high school English and broke into a ...

After a year that stretched you emotionally and mentally, healing doesn't mean erasing what happened. Here are seven ...

Ancient Chinese Medicine Secrets for Healing Brain Fog & Pain | Oz Health For over 5,000 years, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has offered natural ways to heal the body and mind. But what secrets ...

Breakups hurt. Not just in the existential 'will I ever love again?' way but also literally: your brain engages the same neural pathways activated by physical pain when you go through this type of ...