Shoulder pain can be a real pain, but what if the pain isn't what it seems? Sometimes shoulder pain isn't really about your ...

To offer medical professionals a real-time, clinically proven tool for detecting levels of activity in the involuntary nervous system, an early warning sign of a body under stress, the researchers ...

The vagus nerve originates from four clusters of neurons in the brain’s medulla, where the brainstem attaches to the spinal cord. Most nerves in our body branch directly from the spinal cord ...

But glia are now known to have much fancier jobs too, including changing the signals that pass between nerve cells, guiding the growth of nerve cells and pruning neural connections called synapses ...

The nerve that enables the human clitoris to detect pleasurable touch contains thousands more nerve fibers than once estimated — about 10,000, rather than 8,000.

Scientists created a model of the human pain pathway in a dish by connecting four separate brain organoids. The feat should help them understand sensory disorders like those affecting pain perception.