A new review article summarizes the wide-ranging, evolving potential of devices that modulate vagus nerve activity.

Nerve pain, tingling sensations, and burning feet used to be seen as untreatable symptoms of aging or diabetic ...

In a fruit fly, nerve cells that detect limb movement are silenced when the insect walks or grooms. This on-off switch may help the nervous system to shift between two states: one helps keep the body ...

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand different types of nerve cell in the human brain according to the latest ...

Diabetes affects millions worldwide, causing both nerve and metabolic complications. A recent study suggests that diabetic nerve damage may also lead to impaired bone health. Using a mouse model of ...

After years of work, cognition and neuroscience doctoral student Hailey Welch is—for the first time—the lead author of a study published in an academic journal, a paper appearing in Cell Reports, ...

Slip disc or sciatica? Know the key differences, symptoms, and causes of nerve pain—and learn when surgery becomes necessary ...