An owner preparing for Crufts said her "special" and "affectionate" Icelandic Sheepdog had transformed her mental health.

The neuropeptide oxytocin is a special messenger substance that nerve cells use to communicate with each other. It is acting as both a neurotransmitter and a hormone and is best known for promoting ...

Arshad Majid receives funding from the National Institute of Health research (NIHR) EME Programme for the TRICEPS trial which is investigating tVNS in stroke recovery. The vagus nerve has quietly ...

Commissioning Editor, Health + Medicine and Host of Strange Health podcast, The Conversation Katie Edwards is Commissioning Editor for Health and Medicine at The Conversation in the UK. Arshad Majid ...

In a new study published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, Eroboghene Ubogu, M.D., professor in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Neurology and director of the Division of ...

The sharp rise in mental health diagnoses among young people has ignited a polarizing debate. Many identify global upheavals as the source of the surge in mental illness — Covid-19, social media, ...

Dec 3 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Axogen's (AXGN.O), opens new tab nerve repair graft, the health regulator said on Wednesday, paving the way for 12 years of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Kevin Tracey, MD, talks about his book, The Great Nerve, in this Healio Community webinar. Tracey discusses the ...

Scientists have discovered that a single gene, GRIN2A, can directly cause mental illness—something previously thought to stem only from many genes acting together. People with certain variants of this ...