Some goals people set for themselves carry risks, and the nervous system may quietly steer you away from them.

Solange Knowles recently revealed on her Instagram that she had to cancel a New Year’s Eve performance in South Africa due to health issues. Knowles said in her post that she had trouble figuring out ...

Q: What is autonomic dysfunction? A: There are certain body functions that require rapid, involuntary and reflexive onset of actions, and these are controlled by the autonomic nervous system (the word ...

Katharine Simon, PhD, clinical pediatric psychologist, and postdoctoral researcher, Sleep and Cognition Lab, UC Irvine, explains the influence of the autonomic nervous system on body functions and ...

Studies of heart-rate variability – small changes between heartbeats controlled by the vagus nerve – show that swearing may ...

'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 ...

In order for your body to work properly, your nervous system needs to be working properly. Your nervous system is responsible for helping your brain communicate with your body and helping your body ...

If you’re feeling stressed, the advice to “take a deep breath” is as cliché as it comes. But even if you know that slowing your respiratory roll really can calm you down and make you feel rested and ...

An industry blueprint showing how software, hardware, and standards work together in autonomic computing systems is expected to be discussed during IBM’s developerWorks Live conference next week in ...

Programs crash, people make mistakes, networks grow and change. That¿s life, and computer scientists are finally building systems that can deal with it Computer hardware increases in speed and ...