Neurologic pathologies cause sexual dysfunction both in men and women. However, sexual dysfunction in women because of neurologic factors is generally unexplored and probably underdiagnosed. Many ...

Sensation (noun) is emergent in joint acts of sensing (verb). To sense, in other words, is to make sense, and sense making entails what we call "somatic work." We investigate these dynamics in the ...

Information from external and internal environments is conveyed through peripheral sensory neurons terminating in specialized structures termed sensory receptors located in the skin, muscles and ...

This post was co-authored by Dr. Ruth Lanius, Lauren Rudolph, and Dr. Breanne Kearney. Trauma is an insult to the senses, leaving a lasting impact: It affects what we see, hear, and feel, and how we ...

The nervous system that sprouts from the brain may seem like an incomprehensible tangle. But anatomists can divide it pretty cleanly into two parts. One part is directed to the outside world, while ...

As sensory receptors in our skin, muscles, bones, joints and organs are triggered by a specific stimulus, this signal passes to the somatosensory region in the brain which is uniquely attributed to ...