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A recent study found that a common upper-body stretch can quickly lower blood pressure. We spoke to an expert about how you ...

Through academic courses, meditation sessions and an annual summit, the Stanford Medicine program helps students, faculty and staff breathe.

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Wilson (1923) introduced the term "tonic fit" when describing sudden episodes of intensification of extensor posturing. Throughout the years, terms such as diencephalic autonomic epilepsy (Penfield, ...

Maltreatment can have lasting effects on the physiology of children. Training that improved parents’ sensitivity to their toddlers also improved the childrens’ physiological reaction to ...