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When we watch someone move, get injured, or express emotion, our brain doesn’t just see it—it partially feels it. Researchers found eight body-like maps in the visual cortex that organize what we see ...

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Like a highway system, the vagus nerve branches profusely from your brain through your organs to marshal bodily functions, including aspects of mind such as mood, pleasure and fear. It is late at ...

Communication between the body and the nervous system is called interoception and it allows the brain to sense internal states, such as hunger, pain, or heart rate. The vagus nerve is an important ...

Have you ever read something and felt it in your body? Let's say you read about muscle cramps and then suddenly as you read you start feeling like you are cramping too. Does this happen? Well, if your ...

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Source: Microsoft Copilot / Microsoft How Was This at All Possible? Moshé Feldenkrais had two injured knees (one long-term and one short-term), both of which resulted in ongoing pain. After walking ...