News tagged with sensory system

Neuron memory key to taming chronic pain

For some, the pain is so great that they can't even bear to have clothes touch their skin. For others, it means that every step is a deliberate and agonizing choice. Whether the pain is caused by arthritic joints, an injury ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Neuroscientists find genetic trigger that makes stem cells differentiate in nose epithelia

University of California, Berkeley, neuroscientists have discovered a genetic trigger that makes the nose renew its smell sensors, providing hope for new therapies for people who have lost their sense of smell ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New research distinguishes roles of conscious and subconscious awareness

What distinguishes information processing with conscious awareness from processing occurring without awareness? And, is there any role for conscious awareness in information processing, or is it just a byproduct, like the ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Nerve cells key to making sense of our senses

The human brain is bombarded with a cacophony of information from the eyes, ears, nose, mouth and skin. Now a team of scientists at the University of Rochester, Washington University in St. Louis, and Baylor College of Medicine ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 20, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Evidence base for exercise programs for older people still in the balance

Good balance and mobility are essential to help you perform most activities involved in every-day life, as well as many recreational pursuits. Keeping your balance is a complex task, involving the co-ordination between a ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Possible therapy for one form of inherited nerve dysfunction

Hereditary neuropathies are common nervous system conditions characterized by progressive loss of muscle control and/or sensory function. There are no effective treatments. However, work in mice, by a team of researchers ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research team develops mathematical model to explain harmony in music

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bernardo Spagnolo of the University of Palermo in Italy and his Russian colleagues have developed a model that they believe explains why it is we humans hear some notes as harmonious, and ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (15) | comments 54 | with audio podcast report

New perspectives on sensory mechanisms

The latest Perspectives in General Physiology series examines the mechanisms of visual, aural, olfactory, and tactile processes that inform us about the environment. The series appears in the September 2011 ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Microbial study reveals sophisticated sensory response

All known biological sensory systems, including the familiar examples of the five human senses – vision, hearing, smell, taste and touch – have one thing in common: when exposed to a sustained change ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

An app for your brain: new educational tool developed by U-M doctor

With a new application developed by a U-M neurologist, better understanding of the anatomy of the peripheral nervous system can be found right on your iPhone.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 12, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Animal instincts: Why do unhappy consumers prefer tactile sensations?

A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research explains why sad people are more likely to want to hug a teddy bear than seek out a visual experience such as looking at art. Hint: It has to do with our mammalian instincts.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ocean acidification leaves clownfish deaf to predators

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the Industrial Revolution, over half of all the CO2 produced by burning fossil fuels has been absorbed by the ocean, making pH drop faster than any time in the last 650,000 years and ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

First clinical trial of gene therapy for pain reported

In the first clinical trial of gene therapy for treatment of intractable pain, researchers from the University of Michigan Department of Neurology observed that the treatment appears to provide substantial pain relief.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers use the common cockroach to fine-tune robots of the future

Ask anyone who has ever tried to squash a skittering cockroach -- they're masters of quick and precise movement. Now Tel Aviv University is using their maddening locomotive skills to improve robotic technology ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Feb 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Ears tuned to water

(PhysOrg.com) -- For bats any smooth, horizontal surface is water. Even so if vision, olfaction or touch tells them it is actually a metal, plastic or wooden plate. Bats therefore rely more on their ears than ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast