Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered clues as to how our bodies turn sensations such as ...

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered clues as to how our bodies turn sensations such as ...

New research highlights how the brain’s own chemistry can suppress pain, explaining why severely injured individuals, like WWII soldiers, sometimes feel little discomfort.

This valuable study combines real-time keypoint tracking with transdermal activation of sensory neurons to investigate sensory neuron recruitment in freely moving mice, and builds on the authors' ...

called nociceptors, which send an “Uh-oh” message up the spinal cord to the brain. The brain opens and evaluates the DM, then instantaneously shoots back a response that tells your body someth ...

Analysis: Although we know a lot about the brain and what it does, we still have much left to learn about the most complex organ in the body Our brain is the most complex organ in the body.

Using electrophysiological equipment, they detected nerve-cell reactions ... to several of the crab's body parts," he added. The study showed that the crabs possess nociceptors that detect ...

Several transcription factors in these cells follow a broad-to-restricted expression trajectory ... retained and required in tactile somatosensory neurons. In developing nociceptors, Prdm12 ...

Pain receptors, or nociceptors, are located in the skin and are responsible ... The afferent nociceptor has its cell body in the dorsal root ganglion; each dorsal root ganglion has distinct sensory ...

Scientists from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the Medical College of Wisconsin have created a data science framework to better understand how cells travel through the body.