Emotional well-being has a direct impact on heart health. Stress management is one way to help keep your heart happy. We tend to think of the brain and heart as two very separate things — the ...

Can an active social life protect your heart? Cardiologists explain how social connections, stress reduction and lifestyle ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- You may have heard of the mind-body connection: the broad concept that thoughts and feelings, especially those related to stress, can influence physical health. Mohamad Alkhouli, M ...

“Think with your heart” is often dismissed as sentimental nonsense. Yet modern science reveals that the heart is not merely a mechanical pump but an intelligent organ that influences our decisions, ...

Most of us are aware of how our brain communicates with our heart. For example, when we start jogging, our brain signals our heart to beat faster. Fear, stress, or even the sight of a long-lost love ...

Like a highway system, the vagus nerve branches profusely from your brain through your organs to marshal bodily functions, including aspects of mind such as mood, pleasure and fear. It is late at ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. It is late at night. You are alone and wandering empty streets in search of your parked car when you hear footsteps creeping up from ...