News tagged with sensory nerves

Rebooting the brain helps stop the ring of tinnitus in rats

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers were able to eliminate tinnitus in a group of rats by stimulating a nerve in the neck while simultaneously playing a variety of sound tones over an extended period of time, says a study published ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jan 12, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (20) | comments 28 | with audio podcast

Researchers finds hidden sensory system in the skin

Researchers report that the human body has an entirely unique and separate sensory system aside from the nerves that give most of us the ability to touch and feel. Surprisingly, this sensory network is located throughout ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (15) | comments 1

Squid shown to be able to hear

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in the US have solved the mystery about whether squid can hear and if so, how.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 08, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 15 | with audio podcast report

Study shows common pain cream could protect heart during attack

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from the University of Cincinnati (UC) shows that a common, over-the-counter pain salve rubbed on the skin during a heart attack could serve as a cardiac-protectant, preventing ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

New powerful tool can visualize dynamic activity of electrical signals in neuronal populations

Information processing in the brain relies on the coordinated activity between populations of different types of neurons, each with distinct electrical properties and connections. Understanding how complex ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 27, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Up a little on the left... now, over to the right... Scientists find a source of nonallergic itch

Scratching below the surface of a troublesome sensation that's equal parts tingle-tickle-prickle, sensory scientists from Johns Hopkins have discovered in mice a molecular basis for nonallergic itch.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Scientists decipher the formation of lasting memories

Researchers Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have discovered a mechanism that controls the brain's ability to create lasting memories. In experiments on genetically manipulated mice, they ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New method reveals how individual nerve cells process visual input

Pioneering a novel microscopy method, neuroscientist Arthur Konnerth and colleagues from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM, Germany) have shown that individual neurons carry out significant aspects of sensory processing: ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 29, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

ATP is a key to feel warm temperature

A Japanese research group led by Prof. Makoto Tominaga and Dr. Sravan Mandadi (National Institute for Physiological Sciences: NIPS) found that ATP plays a key role in transmitting temperature information from skin keratinocytes ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Now hear this: Scientists show how tiny cells deliver big sound

Deep in the ear, 95 percent of the cells that shuttle sound to the brain are big, boisterous neurons that, to date, have explained most of what scientists know about how hearing works. Whether a rare, whisper-small second ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Newly Discovered Gene Mutation Linked to Nerve Diseases

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have identified mutations in the gene for TRPV4 that cause two related degenerative motor nerve disorders, scapuloperoneal spinal muscular ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Tuning into cell signals that tell where sensory organs will form inside the ear

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cell signals guide the anatomical development of hearing and balance structures. These signals disappear early in life, but perhaps could be recharged to restore hearing loss in adults.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study shows neural stem cells in mice affected by gene associated with longevity

(PhysOrg.com) -- A gene associated with longevity in roundworms and humans has been shown to affect the function of stem cells that generate new neurons in the adult brain, according to researchers at the Stanford University ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Now hear this: Mouse study sheds light on hearing loss in older adults

(PhysOrg.com) -- Becoming "hard of hearing" is a standard but unfortunate part of aging: A syndrome called age-related hearing loss affects about 40 percent of people over 65 in the United States, and will afflict an estimated ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Age dramatically delays recovery of the sense of taste

Age dramatically delays the time if takes to recover the sense of taste following a significant nerve injury, Medical College of Georgia researchers said.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0