Our body’s natural sleep-wake rhythm, or circadian rhythm, helps us stay healthy and function throughout our daily lives.

Huntington’s disease is a heritable neurodegenerative disease that can impact those under 20 in its juvenile form and develop in adults as early as their 30s and 40s.

Twenty years of research have established the connection between adverse childhood experiences and long-term health. Now researchers are looking for ways to measure the biology behind the correlation and try to reverse it.

Working out buffs up the body — and perhaps the mind, too. New research is revealing how physical activity can reduce and even ward off depression, anxiety and other psychological ailments.

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Historically associated with combat veterans, PTSD symptoms occur in people with vastly different experiences, including those whose jobs rarely take them away from a desk.

Arousal is a physiological state involving brain and body changes that motivate behavior and enable response to stimuli.

A flow state can occur during a period of intense focus, absence of worrying, high responsiveness, and dissipation of self-consciousness.

The default mode network is a collection of brain regions active during quiet rest while awake.

ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a fatal motor neuron disease.