A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Communications, reveals how rhythmic brain waves known as alpha ...

The results revealed that the speed of alpha brain waves in the parietal cortex plays a key role. This region of the brain ...

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 ...

Warmth and cold shape body awareness, emotions, and mental health in ways science is only starting to understand.

If watching Robert De Niro ordering hammer-based retribution on a cheat's hand in Casino instinctively made you wince, you are not alone. Many people say that seeing bodily injury on film makes them ...

In A Nutshell Alpha brain waves cycling at 8-13 times per second determine how wide your “temporal binding window,” or the ...

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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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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have found that when the stomach and brain are synced too strongly, it may signal worse mental health, linking anxiety, depression, and stress to an overactive gut-brain connection. The ...

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 ...