When he’s curled up inside the womb, your baby doesn’t have much exploring to do. But even in this protected world, a fetus is actively developing a sense of touch.

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Objective: To assess the impact of the somatosensory influence on annoyance and quality of life of individuals with tinnitus. Methods: This cross-sectional study included individuals with tinnitus of ...

A brain-imaging study of people with amputated arms has upended a long-standing belief: that the brain’s map of the body reorganizes itself to compensate for missing body parts. Previous research had ...

Our brain may not be as capable of rewiring following an amputation as we thought, which could have serious implications for how we treat a common complication called phantom limb pain. A part of the ...

Abstract: Recent neuroscience research has shed light on heart-brain interactions during diverse information processes across perception, affective, and cognitive domains. It remains unclear how the ...

The brain can amplify or mute sensations in real time using a newly discovered feedback loop, offering new insight into perception and autism. Shutterstock Our brain doesn’t just feel, it decides how ...

This post was co-authored by Dr. Ruth Lanius, Lauren Rudolph, and Dr. Breanne Kearney. Trauma is an insult to the senses, leaving a lasting impact: It affects what we see, hear, and feel, and how we ...

Sometimes a gentle touch feels sharp and distinct, other times it fades into the background. This inconsistency isn’t just mood—it’s biology. Scientists found that the thalamus doesn’t just relay ...

Recently published research shows that acidosis-evoked discomfort—termed ‘sngception’—is a distinct somatosensory modality, offering new diagnostic targets. One of the most mysterious somatosensory ...

Researchers have found that eating highly processed, sugary, fat-filled foods not only changes your body but also your brain. Dr. Dana Small, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Metabolism and the ...

Functional connectivity mapping reveals sparse, specific, and largely complementary cortical innervation of individual striatal medium spiny neurons within overlapping and loosely topographical ...