"One hour later, at home, I found out that a bus at the station I just left was rigged with a bomb, and it exploded as we ...

In the 1800s, a French Canadian named Alexis St. Martin was shot in the stomach while at a fur trading post, when someone’s musket accidentally fired at close range. He survived, but his injuries ...

Ever felt like you “just know” something but can’t articulate why? That’s your intuition. Many refer to their intuition as the “gut feeling.” It describes the innate ability to know something without ...

For decades, scientists have been exploring whether gut feelings can actually sense events before they happen. Known as precognition, this eerie phenomenon has long been dismissed as superstition.

In a recent study published in the journal Biological Psychiatry, scientists review the involvement of the gut microbiome in triggering the pathogenesis of mental disorders, including major depressive ...

Neurotransmission is the process by which neurotransmitters are released from one neuron and travel across the synapse to transmit signals to another neuron or a target cell. This process is essential ...

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Have you ever been in a situation when you felt in your stomach that something was wrong, or dangerous, and yet there were no visual cues to influence such feelings? These reactions may have been ...

Serious illnesses in children and teenagers often start with very mild or unclear symptoms. At first, a child may just seem ...