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

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

Biocomputing research is testing living neurons for computation as scientists look for energy-efficient alternatives to ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

When a baby smiles at you, it's almost impossible not to smile back. This spontaneous reaction to a facial expression is part of the back-and-forth that allows us to understand each other's emotions ...

Dancing uses overlooked senses and may tie to our deep evolutionary past. Knowing that can only make it more magical.