Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s tangle of touch sensors. David Ginty has ...

MIT researchers demonstrated that 40Hz sensory stimulation improves cognition, hippocampal activity and neurogenesis in Down ...

Neurons are the basic cellular unit of the nervous system. The structure of the neuron includes: Sensory neurons help you to ...

A marathon taxes more than just muscles—it pushes the brain to its metabolic limits. New research shows that during extreme ...

"One of these groups of neurons is solely dedicated to regulating the desire to drink, the first 'thirst neuron' that has been ... areas involved in processing sensory information about food ...

Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the body's smallest blood vessels may be a powerful spinal cord repair ...

From a cubic millimeter of brain tissue, scientists have constructed a precise, 3D map of the activity in a mouse’s brain, ...

This approach allows scientists to study both the structure and activity of the brain in tandem, providing an unparalleled view of how neurons in the brain process sensory information. Now with ...

While it may be an unfamiliar sensation to humans, electroreception is relatively commonplace in the animal kingdom. Sharks, bees and even the platypus all share this ability to detect electric fields ...