Obesity is easy to spot on a scale. What has been much harder to see is how deeply it reshapes the body beneath the surface.

Scientists created the most detailed images of the clitoris, mapping more than 10,000 nerve fibers and revealing insights ...

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 ...

That burning feeling in your feet; the numbness in your hands that won't go away. The tingling that wakes you at night or nerve pain in your hands or feet.

Nerve flossing, which is also called nerve gliding or neurodynamic techniques, uses controlled movements to help nerves glide ...

Tumors do not communicate only with immune cells, blood vessels, and stromal tissue. A growing body of evidence suggests that cancer can also co-opt the nervous system, reshaping the tumor ...

New research from OHSU looked at human tissue to try to understand how many nerve fibers are contained in the clitoris. It seems to be the first time that this has ever been studied (a previous ...

A complex system of nerves and muscles enables the human eye to blink, gaze, and shift focus. The trochlear nerve is one of six cranial nerves that carry electrical impulses from the brain to the eye.

Feeling frazzled? Hotels are now offering amenities designed to tone your vagus nerve — which can help you stay calm and more ...

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 ...