In contrast, the same effective two-body approach fails to describe the proton–deuteron correlations, necessitating a full three-body calculation that accounts for the structure of the deuteron. An ...

The communication between the brain and bodily organs is fundamental to emotion regulation and overall mental health. The nucleus tractus solitarii (NTS) in the brainstem is a critical hub structure ...

Pain defies the mind-body divide. We usually see physical and psychological pain as separate, but research shows that pain doesn’t work that way. Sabrina Coninx and Peter Stilwell argue that pain is ...

What is the relation between the mind (thoughts, perceptions, sensations, emotions) and the physical body? The traditional answer, assumed by all religions that believe in an afterlife, is dualism: ...

A team of scientists led by Patrick Barth at EPFL have developed advanced computational tools that aim to shift the scale of GPCRs water-mediated interactions to design new membrane receptors that ...

Researchers have developed a new imaging method, D-PSCAN, which enables minimally invasive, wide-field, high-resolution imaging of the nucleus tractus solitarii (NTS) in living mice. This technique ...