Having reduced interoceptive abilities is associated with an impaired ability to regulate emotions, impaired self-awareness, ...

For the first time, scientists have recreated the entire human nervous system’s pain circuit in the lab — from the skin’s nerve endings to the somatosensory cortex of the brain. This achievement ...

Adjacent to the motor cortex is the "somatosensory cortex," which is the area of the brain that receives sensations from the body. In the program "Secrets of the Mind," Dr. Ramachandran's ...

Rats help familiar friends more than strangers, driven by brain oxytocin and social bonds. The study shows helping is about connection.

Phantom limb pain following amputation correlates with primary somatosensory cortex (S1) reorganization. Wrigley et al. hypothesized that a similar mechanism underlies persistent neuropathic pain ...

Neurons in the primary somatosensory cortex process different types of sensory information and exhibit distinct activity ...

STANFORD researchers have grown one of the most important neural pain pathways outside the human body – a medical ...