Popular belief holds that our senses gather information only about the external world, but many of our sensory systems also monitor our internal environment, enabling the body to regulate its own ...

An international research team led jointly by the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), the University of Göttingen and the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, has shown that nerve ...

Researchers developed a laser-based artificial neuron that fully emulates the functions, dynamics and information processing of a biological graded neuron, which could lead to new breakthroughs in ...

University of South Carolina neuroscientists have discovered how one common protein helps damaged nerves to heal. Coincidentally, it’s the same protein best known for breaking down nerve cells. Ashley ...

Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy and still perform the most important of their tasks. Researchers from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and the University of Bonn as well as the ...

When you have shingles, red rashes can appear on the skin, accompanied by intense pain. Eventually, the rashes heal, but some people continue to experience pain long after. This is post-herpetic ...