The Rio Grande Valley has one of the highest dementia rates in Texas — nearly double the national average — driven by risk factors such as cardiovascular disease.

You may have heard of the mind-body connection: the broad concept that thoughts and feelings, especially those related to stress, can influence physical health. Mohamad Alkhouli, M.D., an ...

Emotional well-being has a direct impact on heart health. Stress management is one way to help keep your heart happy. We tend to think of the brain and heart as two very separate things — the ...

A clinical neuropsychologist says a few everyday habits can strengthen your brain and support lifelong mental agility.

A new study reveals that your heart rate slows down more when you make a visual mistake than when you see things correctly. This suggests our bodies physically react to perceptual errors in real-time.

Arteries become clogged. Blood flow is restricted and oxygen is cut off. The result is a heart attack, the world's leading cause of death. The conventional approach to studying and treating these ...

The discovery comes from the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, published in Science Translational Medicine. Results demonstrate that restoring the connection between the heart and the right vagus ...

Lower cardiac output has been tied to poorer cerebral blood flow (CBF) in the temporal lobes of older adults without heart failure, a finding that adds to a growing body of research linking heart ...

There’s no question about whether sleep is important for heart and brain health. Study after study has shown that it is. Questions about the importance of how you sleep — on your back, on your side, ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — Heart disease doesn’t stop at the heart; in fact, Lowcountry medical professionals said it can damage multiple organs throughout the body. Heart disease is the leading ...