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.

From a pinprick to a warm breeze, every sensation you perceive begins its journey along this ascending sensory pathway. For the first time, scientists have recreated the entire human nervous system’s ...

A Q&A between Shawn Kwatra, M.D., professor and chair of dermatology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and Managed Healthcare Executive about new discoveries in chronic itch, how ...

Scientists have identified a previously unknown type of neural stem cell (pNSC) that exists outside the brain and spinal cord ...

Since every spinal nerve courses through a foramen and its posterior ramus wraps around the cranial articular process of the underlying vertebra, it is understood that there is a close relationship ...

This nerve circuit transmits sensations from ... regions of the ascending sensory pathway: the dorsal root ganglion, dorsal spinal cord, thalamus and somatosensory cortex. "We can now model ...

Neuronal cell bodies in dorsal root sensory ganglia and in sympathetic and parasympathetic ganglia are covered by flattened sheet-like cells known as satellite cells, whereas axons in nerve trunks ...

According to the company, the dorsal root ganglion (DRG) is a nerve cell cluster present along ... and functional improvements than traditional spinal cord stimulation approaches.

Shingles can cause intercostal neuralgia by leading to inflammation in the spinal nerve roots. Pregnant people can sometimes develop intercostal neuralgia. This is because pregnancy involves ...

The first symptom of a herniated disc is usually back pain, followed by symptoms related to pinching and irritation of a nearby spinal nerve root, which is known as radiculopathy. The area of the body ...