The following is a summary of “A safety and feasibility randomized placebo controlled trial exploring electroencephalographic ...

UChicago scientists are making major progress on a technology designed to give nuanced “feeling” to prosthetic hands, by delivering gentle electrical stimulation to the brain.

The somatosensory system consists of the peripheral receptors and neural pathways through which the nervous system detects and processes information about touch (mechanoception), pain (nociception ...

Interleukin-1 (IL-1) is a key molecule involved in inflammation and plays an important role in both healthy and diseased ...

Interleukin-1 (IL-1) is a key molecule involved in inflammation and plays an important role in both healthy and diseased states.

Neuroscientists have identified that the receptor IL-1R1 plays a critical role in enabling neurons to directly communicate with the immune system. The new study provides the most detailed mapping of ...

For the first time ever, a complex sense of touch for individuals living with spinal cord injuries is a step closer to reality. A new study published in Science, paves the way for complex touch ...

The paper is titled "Tactile edges and motion via patterned microstimulation of the human somatosensory cortex." The researchers, who are all part of the US-based Cortical Bionics Research Group, have ...

Some scientists have begun to use intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) of the brain’s somatosensory cortex to bridge this gap, since experiments have shown that such stimulation can produce ...

Intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) of somatosensory cortex evokes tactile sensations whose properties can be systematically manipulated by varying stimulation parameters. However, ICMS currently ...

Any condition that affects the optic nerves or disrupts the visual pathways to the visual cortex in the brain can affect the brain’s VEP. You may need additional tests to rule out other conditions.

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 ...