Modern life moves fast, but nature invites us to slow down. Here are six surprising ways nature can soothe our weary nervous systems and bring us back to balance.

"Before I got into this," Meghann Fahy told me, "I thought maybe I would study psychology and become a ... But I still get nervous all the time. I did ["Jimmy Kimmel Live!"] a couple of nights ...

A new imaging study showed that listening to favorite music affects the function of the brain's opioid system. A new imaging study by the Turku PET Centre in Finland showed that listening to ...

Our ancestors’ ability to recognize water sources was crucial to their survival. As a result, the attraction to lustrous materials is deeply rooted in our evolutionary history and is evident ...

The smallest control system of vision in mammals has been mapped -- a discovery that opens entirely new insights into how our vision works and how it can be affected by disease. For the first time ...

We are not able to override the autonomic nervous system, which is housed in our brainstem, by consciously telling ourselves to stop breathing, for obvious good reasons. Because of the protection ...

When Illinois resident Terry Stanton retired, most of his investments were in stocks. But he took the advice of a friend after the presidential election and moved some of his investments to gold.

For the first time, scientists have recreated the entire human nervous system’s pain circuit in the lab — from the skin’s nerve endings to the somatosensory cortex of the brain. This ...

“But fortunately, our attempts were not in vain: We found previously unknown peripheral neural stem cells, challenging the long-held dogma that neural stem cells do not exist outside the central ...