Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mosquitoes' taste for blood traced to four types of neurons
It's one of the world's deadliest animals, and it has a taste for human blood: the mosquito.
Oct 12, 2020
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News tagged with sense
Genetics
There's a gene for detecting that fishy smell, olfactory GWAS shows
For many people, the smell of fish is rather strong and unpleasant. But some people carry a mutation in a particular gene that makes that fish odor less intense, reports a paper publishing October 8 in the journal Current ...
Oct 8, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
How 'swapping bodies' with a friend changes our sense of self
Our sense of who we are is thought to be influenced by things like our childhood experiences, our interactions with others, and now, researchers say, our bodies. A study appearing August 26 in the journal iScience shows that, ...
Aug 26, 2020
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Medical research
Researchers restore injured man's sense of touch using brain-computer interface technology
While we might often take our sense of touch for granted, for researchers developing technologies to restore limb function in people paralyzed due to spinal cord injury or disease, re-establishing the sense of touch is an ...
Apr 23, 2020
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Neuroscience
Thriving neuron 'nursery' found in a section of adult human nose tissue
Is it possible for an adult brain to make new nerve cells? Scientists have debated this question for decades, with many concluding that neuron-making stops after childhood, or around the age of 13.
Mar 10, 2020
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Medical research
Researchers end decade-long search for mechanical pain sensor
Researchers at McGill University have discovered that a protein found in the membrane of our sensory neurons are involved in our capacity to feel mechanical pain, laying the foundation for the development of powerful new ...
Feb 24, 2020
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Neuroscience
Approaching the perception of touch in the brain
More than ten percent of the cerebral cortex is involved in processing information about our sense of touch—a larger area than previously thought. This is the result of a joint study by researchers from the Max Planck Institute ...
Nov 25, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
How humans' sense of 'intuitive physics' touches fictional worlds
It's not something most Harvard faculty spend much time contemplating, but Tomer Ullman likes to think about magic.
Nov 15, 2019
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Neuroscience
Typical olfactory bulbs might not be necessary for smell, case study suggests
Our sense of smell depends on the transmission of olfactory information from the nose to the olfactory bulb in the brain through the olfactory nerve. And without olfactory bulbs, smell isn't possible—or so scientists thought.
Nov 6, 2019
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Neuroscience
Need to balance guides development of limb-body coordination
The need to feel balanced drives the development of coordination between body and limbs as zebrafish larvae learn to swim, a new study finds.
Oct 8, 2019
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