In fact, the somatosensory neurons that make all these sensations possible constitute the largest sensory system in mammals. Scientists knew that for somatosensation to occur, there must be molecular ...

As sensory receptors in our skin, muscles, bones, joints and organs are triggered by a specific stimulus, this signal passes to the somatosensory region in the brain which is uniquely attributed ...

This final article in our series on the human senses explores the physiology of the sense of touch, including the receptors and sensory neurons responsible for detecting and relaying tactile ...

A somatosensory system transmits sensory information within the body from protein receptors to nerve fibers and onward to the brain, where a sensation is perceived. Common sensory information ...

The researchers investigated the relationship of neurotransmitter receptor densities with their corresponding genes in 15 cytoarchitectonic areas of the visual, auditory, somatosensory and motor ...

We perceive these vibrations so clearly thanks to specialized receptors that transduce them ... They discovered that neurons in the somatosensory cortex are activated in a manner similar to ...