Sensory information enters the brain at the primary sensory cortex, where they are processed by different layers of cells in ways that ultimately influence an animal's perception and behavioral ...

Although motor control involves many pathways and circuits in the spinal cord and brain, Fink and colleagues' study focused on the simplest: the feedback between muscle sensory afferent neurons (which ...

PITTSFIELD — We all have our likes and dislikes. The food we eat. The clothes we wear. The places and situations we find either comfortable or somehow awkward, even scary or upsetting. For most of us, ...

The “wires” that carry electrical signals among nerve cells in the brain can influence the threshold at which the cells will send those signals, research on mouse-brain tissue shows. The finding ...

Brains have owners. The question is, "Just who is this owner?" Can the brain be its own owner? Or is it more likely that the brain generates a process that acts like an owner? You might call that ...

Stimuli are changes in our environment that we respond to and are detected by receptors. Different receptors are sensitive to different stimuli (eg receptors in the eye are sensitive to light). A ...

CUTANEOUS mast cells in the rat differ from those of other species in that they contain, besides histamine, 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) 1. It is known that in the cat 5-HT excites certain cutaneous ...