Why reading helps cure an overactive nervous system, according to a neuroscientist

Learn how opening a book and turning the page could be the answer to resetting your vagus nerve and your parasympathetic ...
The Tufts Daily

Jess Keiser explores the Enlightened psyche, "nervous fictions" in new book

Jess Keiser (A’06), assistant professor of English at Tufts, in his new book, “Nervous Fictions: Literary Form and the Enlightenment Origins of Neuroscience” (2020), investigates the relationship ...

Your brain on reading: 9 ways it shapes how you think, feel and focus

Reading does more than pass the time. Research suggests it can influence how the brain processes information, manages stress ...
Newsweek

The Life and Work of a Brain Surgeon, as Told From the Front Line

Our central nervous system is made up, it turns out, of gray and white matter, but it is the gray matter, which makes up the outer layers of our brain, that plays the most important role in the ...
GEN

Migraines Triggered by CSF Flow between Brain and Peripheral Nervous System

Research headed by teams at the University of Rochester Center for Translational Medicine and the University of Copenhagen describes for the first time how a spreading wave of disruption and the flow ...