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 ...

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 ...

The article, Tactile edges and motion via patterned microstimulation of the human somatosensory cortex, was published in Science. The researchers involved in the study are Giacomo Valle ...

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 ...

The GABA (γ-aminobutyric acid)-ergic interneurons of the cerebral cortex are a diverse population of cells. Their diversity is manifested in every aspect of their phenotype, as evidenced by their ...

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 ...