Teeth are good for chewing and biting, but they are also sensitive – and that may have been their original function hundreds ...

Dan Berkowitz might never have noticed the phenomenon if not for the new lights. In 2012, Johns Hopkins University’s Berkowitz had just moved to a lab space where the lights were motion-activated, and ...

The team's experiments reveal that high-frequency mechanical vibrations picked up by ultra-sensitive mechanoreceptors in the ...

For example, sensory cells in the ... Cells have proteins called receptors that bind to signaling molecules and initiate a physiological response. Different receptors are specific for different ...

When the sensory receptors in the nervous system malfunction ... would likely require a different intervention than a child who finds bright lights to be overstimulating. What is the best ...

Researchers have discovered distinct roles for two dopamine receptors located on nerve cells within the portion of the brain that controls approach vs. avoidance behavior.