A Reddit user claims to have regained feeling in their previously numb foot after receiving a bite from a brown recluse spider. "I had major foot surgery over 10 years ago and lost feeling in two of ...

Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have found physical evidence of a previously unknown communication between nerves on opposite sides of the body. In the May 2004 issue of Annals ...

The human body may be equipped with a separate sensory system aside from the nerves that gives us the ability to touch and feel, according to a new study. Most of us have millions of different types ...

As our only fuel hatch, the mouth is pretty important. It needs detectors for infection, decay and problematic food that is too hot, hard or sharp. The nerve endings of the teeth may seem useless, but ...

Pure cholinergic nerve endings (synaptosomes) were isolated from the electric organ of Torpedo by a rapid procedure. These synaptosomes are ∼3 μm in diameter. They contain an occasional mitochondrion, ...

Because of different types of sensory nerve endings in our fingertips, we are amazingly good at sensing hidden objects in ...

Scientists have identified a specific type of sensory nerve ending in the gut and how these communicate pain or discomfort to the brain, paving the way for targeted treatments for common conditions ...

Here’s a new piece of trivia to toss out at a party sometime: The human clitoris seems to contain more than 10,000 nerve endings. Researchers this month are apparently the first to try counting the ...

An odd little animal that uses the touch of its sensitive nose to experience the world is teaching biologists how nerves stake their claim to territory in the brain. Kenneth C. Catania of Vanderbilt ...