Researchers have also demonstrated that bodily signals such as breathing patterns and gut rhythms can influence emotional reactions. People are quicker to react to fearful faces while breathing in ...

Interoception is how your brain senses and responds to what’s going on inside your body. “It’s how we know when we’re hungry, thirsty, anxious, or even need to take a deep breath,” says Wen G. Chen, ...

Scientists are learning how the brain knows what’s happening throughout the body, and how that process might go awry in some psychiatric disorders. By Carl Zimmer Last year, Ardem Patapoutian got a ...

Sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing – these are the senses we’re probably all familiar with. But we humans may not be limited to just five: some scientists argue for a “sixth sense” – though there ...

Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) is an evidenced-based yoga intervention for survivors of complex trauma — abuse that happens at the hands of people we know and over time. TCTSY has ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...