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How the Parasympathetic Nervous System Influences Your Mental Health

The parasympathetic nervous system is part of the body's autonomic nervous system (ANS). The ANS deals with essential body functions automatically—all of the processes that happen without you even ...
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Parasympathetic Nervous System (PSNS): Role in Body Processes

The parasympathetic nervous system (PSNS) is part of your autonomic nervous system, which includes the nerves and neurotransmitters that control your body’s internal organs to maintain reliable ...
Duke Pratt School of Engineering

Using Electrical Bursts to Get the Gut Moving

Bursts of electrical stimulation could help restore gut motion to treat constipation, a technique recently licensed by industry leader Boston Scientific ...
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Space tourists' experience might be affected by how their parasympathetic nervous system functions, per study of novice passengers during and after zero-gravity parabolic flights

Funding: This research has received a grant from the CNES (number 4800001159). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the ...
The Spokesman-Review

Hacking your body’s nervous system for stress relief

It is incredible how much our nervous system can influence how we feel and act in our everyday lives. Depending on the situation, this can be both a good and a bad thing. That is why the nervous ...