Every other Friday, the Outside/In team answers one listener question about the natural world. This week, Monica in West Hartford, CT asked, “We’ve all heard the phrase, ‘take a deep breath,’ and ...

How Does the Nervous System Work? The messages traveling in your nerves are sent through billions of nerve cells called neurons. The spaces between these cells are called synapses. The cells are ...

The peripheral nervous system (PNS) is the system of nerves and ganglia outside the brain and spinal cord. The PNS consists ...

You can reduce stress after 40 with nature in as little as 20 minutes, and the science behind why it works is simpler than ...

Stretching can be helpful, but it’s often not the full answer. If your nervous system is stuck in fight or flight, muscles ...

Patients on disability often don't feel heard and are labeled by medical professionals. The mental health consequences are ...

Interested in how the nervous system shapes movement and balance? Join us to study real-time brain–muscle interactions in aging and stroke. Many people after stroke, and even healthy older adults, ...

Sexuality is about more than just libido or chemistry—other core factors play a role, yet are often overlooked.