It's an unfortunate fact of life — as we age, we tend to become more forgetful. Aging brains struggle especially with working memory. Called the workbench of the mind, working memory allows us to ...

Not many researchers get the chance to float, weightless, 32,000 feet above the Earth. Medical University of South Carolina scientists usually conduct research in labs – controlled settings where they ...

The effects of spinal cord injuries are complex and multifaceted. People lose not only the ability to control the movement of their limbs, but also the ability to receive sensory feedback from them.

A team of researchers has shown that noninvasive electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve through the ear can reverse memory ...

The Fisher Wallace cranial electrotherapy stimulation device. (Fisher Wallace Photo) Editor’s note: The story has been updated to correct its description of the study’s purpose. The study is testing ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece discusses advances in vagus nerve stimulation. In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the collection ...

The study covered in this summary was published on Research Square as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. However, the Dex-CRH test also resulted in one (2.5%) false positive case compared ...