Stanford Medicine scientists are generating a periodic table of sorts for psychiatric disorders, providing a better ...

Thermal sensations are consciously differentiated as hot or cold by the brain; however, the neural mechanism that enables ...

Researchers have discovered that neurotransmitters like dopamine and serotonin are released when processing the emotional ...

They removed a slaughterhouse pig’s brain from its head and deprived it of oxygen at room temperature for four hours. Then, ...

A complex sense of touch for individuals living with spinal cord injuries is a step closer to reality. A study published in ...

When we touch something hot or cold, the temperature is consciously sensed. Previous studies have shown that the cortex, the ...

A research team at the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has revealed that parvalbumin (PV) interneurons in the primary somatosensory cortex (S1) preferentially encode pain ...

When we touch something hot or cold, the temperature is consciously sensed. Previous studies have shown that the cortex, the outermost layer of the brain, is responsible for thermal sensations.

Participant says controlling the virtual drone felt like playing a musical instrument, evoking activity and socialization.

The implications of this research could redefine the boundary between life and death, help people on the cusp of death, and ...

The human brain, as the seat of mental life ... within which are many other subdivisions. The cerebral cortex forms the outer layer of the cerebrum. Nested deeper within the brain are essential ...

Researchers at Waseda University used EEG to map brain activity during thermal perception, identifying ten cortical regions ...