Pre-race nerves can spiral out of control, and some athletes start to feel anxious about feeling anxious. What are your ...

For millions battling chronic nerve pain, even the softest touch can feel agonizing — but scientists may have uncovered a ...

Made up of your brain, spinal cord, and nerves, your nervous system helps you breathe, move, speak, and see, according to the ...

Scientists have created an AI-powered system that can scan and map an entire mouse body in extraordinary detail — and it just uncovered a surprising new effect of obesity. Beyond disrupting metabolism ...

RA can hurt your peripheral nerves, which are part of the peripheral nervous system. That’s the communication system that helps your central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) send and receive ...

Compression or ‘pinching’ of one of the main arm nerves can cause tingling, numbness, and nerve pain in the arm. Physical therapy, medications, and surgery can treat pinched nerves. A pinched nerve ...

Obesity does not just enlarge fat stores, it appears to rework the body’s wiring and immune landscape in ways scientists have ...

Facial nerve disorders can significantly impact your quality of life, affecting how you speak, eat, drink, and express emotion. A facial nerve disorder results from damage to the nerves controlling ...

What Is the Occipital Nerve? The occipital nerve is actually a group of nerves that give you feeling in your scalp. They branch off from larger nerves in your spinal cord. There are three kinds of ...

Maybe you’ve experienced it before: Your palms are sweating, your limbs feel weak or heavy, and your gut is unsettled. You’re nervous, and on the surface, you may or may not look calm and ready. And ...

The clitoris is larger than most people think, and much of the organ is internal. Joel Saget / AFP via Getty Images One of the human body’s least studied organs is finally getting attention. The ...