I still remember when a patient woke up from hip surgery in tears—tears of relief. She had been terrified of waking up groggy ...

Researchers have recreated the human ascending sensory pathway in a lab dish, using organoids that model the key brain and ...

Scientists develop lab-grown model of the human sensory pathway to investigate how pain signals are transmitted to the brain.

Immediate use for the newly developed assembloids could include studying neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism.

Neuropathic pain, a complex and often debilitating condition, presents a significant challenge to both patients and ...

Most scientists accept that it involves activation and sensitization of the trigeminovascular system, which includes the sensory peripheral projections to the pain-producing dura mater ...

Neuropathic pain, defined as pain caused by a lesion or disease of the somatosensory nervous system, does not act as a signal to warn the body of damage as acute pain does, and thus it does not have a ...

The recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) anatomy is designed to supply function to most muscles of the larynx (voice box). It branches from the vagus nerve (cranial nerve 10) but follows an unusual pathway ...