Chronic pain affects nearly 50 million Americans, yet new research reveals the brain may have an internal switch that can turn it down.
In the face of a perceived threat, your body often activates a fight-or-flight response. George Peters/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images Heart in your throat. Butterflies in your stomach. Bad gut ...
Northwestern Medicine investigators have uncovered new insights into the synaptic connections of subgroups of interneurons, ...
Deleting a gene called PTEN in certain brain cells disrupts the brain’s fear circuitry and triggers anxiety-like behavior in mice — key traits seen in autism. Researchers mapped how this genetic tweak ...
PTEN Connection to Autism: Up to 25% of those with brain overgrowth and autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) carry variations in a gene called PTEN; PTEN-deficient mouse models exhibit ASD-like ...
Kindness—especially self-kindness—calms the brain, soothes big feelings, and turns conflict into connection with courage and ...