Late in pregnancy, the human body carefully prepares fetuses for the rigors of life outside the protection of the womb. Levels of cortisol, a stress hormone, ramp up and spike during labor.

Late in pregnancy, the human body carefully prepares fetuses for the rigors of life outside the protection of the womb. Levels of cortisol, a stress hormone, ramp up and spike during labor.

A doctor explains what nervous system regulation really means, how chronic stress affects the body, and what helps restore ...

While we’ve evolved to be able to respond well to immediate threats, our stress-response system is less able deal with the ...

Our society has gotten used to chronic stress, so we often don't recognize nervous system dysregulation for what it is.

Q: What is autonomic dysfunction? A: There are certain body functions that require rapid, involuntary and reflexive onset of actions, and these are controlled by the autonomic nervous system (the word ...

Altered autonomic nervous system activity was linked to specific sleep disturbances, with distinct sex-based patterns.

For people with chronic insomnia, a good night's sleep is elusive. But what if insomnia symptoms could be alleviated by simply listening to one's own brainwaves? Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist ...

'In a low-risk group of babies born full-term, the autonomic nervous system and cortical systems appear to function well regardless of whether infants were exposed to labor prior to birth,' says Sarah ...