NIH invests $14.2 million to map interoception, the body’s hidden sixth sense, revealing how the brain monitors vital ...

Addressing the question of whether and how immune cells (macrophages) in the central nervous system (CNS) traffic out, ...

Scientists are mapping how the body senses internal organs. This “sixth sense” study could reveal new ways to treat chronic diseases.

Biologists have long been fascinated by the ability of salamanders to regrow entire limbs. Now Harvard researchers have ...

Peripheral afferent neurons—nerves that send signals from all areas of the body to the central nervous system (brain and ...

Scientists from Scripps Research say the human body has a 'hidden sixth sense', called 'interoception'. Interoception is an 'understudied process', by which your nervous system continuously receives ...

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