Pacemakers are little gizmos that are implanted under the skin in the chest that deliver small electrical pulses to keep your ...

Some medications and supplements should not be taken together. But that's not the case for these two, which, together, may ...

After surviving a cardiac event, your brain can be affected. Dr Sanjeev Gera explains why preserving your brain function and ...

Eight companies have been selected to participate in the American Heart Association Heart and Brain Health Accelerator, a ...

The prevalence of congenital heart disease points to the need for a better understanding of how it influences neurodevelopment. New in JNeurosci, Jung-Hoon Kim and Catherine Limperopoulos, from ...

One of the key symptoms of major depressive disorder is anhedonia, or the inability to feel pleasure. Anhedonia is particularly difficult to treat with traditional pharmaco- or psychotherapies. One ...

New research led by the University of Melbourne is helping to shed light on the aging process of the heart and how age-related changes in the cardiovascular system impact brain networks. While it is ...

A heart attack can trigger a desire to get more sleep, allowing the heart to heal and reduce inflammation—and this happens because the heart sends special signals to the brain, according to a new ...

The human brain is one of the most complex organs in the world, and it consumes a lot of the energy that people take in by eating food (about 20 percent of the daily calorie intake). To make it more ...

However, the mechanisms by which mental states might influence the immune or cardiovascular systems are still not well understood. Asya Rolls, a neuroscientist at the Technion – Israel Institute of ...