Researchers at the University of North Texas Health Fort Worth want to unpack how the brain pulls off those sensory feats ...

Meaning doesn’t stay inside individual brains. Shared attention and language allow meaning to become symbolic, social, and ...

Scientists have mapped the sensory neurons in bone for the first time, and identified their dual role in reporting and ...

New research has found that the benefits of graded sensorimotor retraining are likely to be similar for all patients with chronic low back pain.

Do you struggle to concentrate for more than a few minutes or find you can’t focus on even the most mundane task? You’re not alone, says Dr Sabina Brennan, a neuroscientist and assistant professor at ...

Studies of brain injuries and electrical stimulation seemed to bear this out. Damaging the Broca’s area, for instance, interfered with speech, and stimulating specific tissues could lead to specific ...

New experiments reveal how astrocytes tune neuronal activity to modulate our mental and emotional states. The results suggest ...

Nocion Therapeutics, Inc. a biopharmaceutical company developing novel small molecule therapies that selectively silence activated sensory neurons, today announced that preclinical data supporting the ...

Thinking of the screen as skin means rethinking the relationship between body and technology. In Emanuela Moretti’s ...

The first node sits in the peripheral nervous system. Sensory neurons in the vagus nerve detect damage in the heart and send signals upward. The researchers focused on a subset of vagal sensory ...

Creativity is more than just a spark. New brain scan studies reveal the complicated interplay between multiple brain systems.

Valeria Vinogradova, a researcher at HSE University, together with British colleagues, studied how language proficiency affects cognitive processing in deaf adults. The study showed that higher ...