For the more than 50 million Americans living with chronic pain, the question has always been the same: why does it stay? A ...
A light brush of fabric against skin should not cause agony. But for the roughly 51 million American adults living with ...
Researchers discover decision-making signals in the brain's early sensory regions, suggesting bidirectional feedback loops ...
Deep within the brain, scientists have uncovered a hidden “switch” that may decide whether pain fades away—or lingers for ...
A University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led team has found that electrical stimulation of the body combined with sound activates the brain's somatosensory or "tactile" cortex, increasing the potential ...
Like a thick velvety headband, the somatosensory cortex arcs across the top of brain from just above one ear to the other. I fell in love with the brain as an undergraduate student and pursued a ...