Repeated exercise, or wasting, can change the way key genes work.

Today, we're diving into a topic that sounds almost magical but is grounded in real science: muscle memory. Trust me, understanding how it works might just be the motivational boost you need to start ...

Plot twist: muscle memory isn’t actually about your muscles at all. It’s about your brain doing some serious behind-the-scenes work! Imagine your brain is creating a super-detailed map for every ...

Reflexes are automatic and involuntary actions the body produces in response to certain stimuli. While some reflexes can involve muscles and movement, others involve internal processes within the body ...

Why is it that once you've learned how to ride a bicycle or serve a tennis ball that you never forget the muscle memory involved in these actions? A team of neuroscientists recently pinpointed a new ...

Hyporeflexia is the reduction or absence of the body's normal reflexes. It is caused by the disruptions of signals from nerve cells of the spinal cord (called motor neurons) to skeletal muscles that ...

What is the acoustic reflex? When a loud sound stimulus is presented to the ear, there is a reflexive contraction of the minute muscles that are connected to the ossicles in the Middle Ear. When these ...