A scene from the ongoing World Cup soccer match. A striker faces the goalkeeper one-on-one. Just as everyone anticipates a ...

When you lift weights, walk up a steep hill or ride a bike, your body is continuously sending sensory signals to your brain. These signals paint a picture of the physical sensation of what you're ...

New Delhi: Heartbreak is usually spoken of in emotional terms — grief, sadness, loss. But inside the clinic, we see something else unfolding alongside those feelings. Intense emotional shock sets off ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Your brain produces around a pint of cerebrospinal fluid each day. Archibald Church, Diseases of the nervous system ...

Electroconvulsive therapy is highly effective in treating major depressive disorder, but no one knows why it works. New research suggests it may restore balance between excitation and inhibition in ...

Electric shocks to the brain took away the cravings of two patients with binge eating disorder for at least six months, a small study said. The two patients were fitted with a brain implant to zap the ...

This post was co-authored by Dr. Ruth Lanius, Lauren Rudolph, and Dr. Breanne Kearney. Trauma is pervasive, and thus numerous therapies have been developed to address its distressing symptoms. However ...

Brain zaps, also known as “brain shakes,” “brain shocks,” “brain flips,” or “brain shivers,” are sensations you may feel when stopping selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). The cause is ...

Scientists in Cambridge and Berlin have used a form of gene therapy to increase levels of the so-called "cold shock protein" in the brains of mice, protecting them against the potentially devastating ...

This may come off as ridiculous but I'm completely srs. A couple times over the past couple months, I've felt a "shock" in my forehead. It feels like a buildup of pressure over a couple seconds and ...