If you roll an alligator on its back and hold it there, it will exhibit a strange behavior. After 15 or 20 seconds, the alligator will go limp and become unresponsive. It’s called tonic immobility and ...

While nearly 40% of the population will faint in their lifetime, until now scientists have not known the exact mechanism at play when we experience that brief, terrifying lack of consciousness. That ...

Like Victorian ladies swooning over some breech of social etiquette, the goats in Cheryl Sellin's corral seem to faint away, falling on their side and backs. It lasts only a second, then the fainting ...

Millions of people experience vasovagal syncope, an occasional fainting episode triggered by a dip in blood pressure. But for Marty H., 46, fainting was a daily occurrence, and conventional treatments ...