Health

How does the body clock keep track of time?

Picture the scene: you wake up in the dim light of the morning, and wonder if it's already time to get up. Just as you reach for your bedside clock, your morning alarm goes off. It's a handy—if mysterious—skill. But how ...

Neuroscience

Mind-body connection is built into brain, study suggests

Calm body, calm mind, say the practitioners of mindfulness. A new study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis indicates that the idea that the body and mind are inextricably intertwined is ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Sex differences seen in vascular response to mental stress

For women, peripheral microvascular dysfunction in response to mental stress is associated with adverse cardiovascular events, according to a study published online March 1 in Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology ...

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