Nrupen Pakalapati, a doctoral candidate in biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University and researcher in the Neural Engineering Center (NEC), won the American Epilepsy Society’s 2025 ...

Somatosensory C-fiber microneurography is a specialized technique for directly recording nerve activity from unmyelinated, small C-fiber afferents, historically “invisible” to standard EMG and nerve ...

Many people today live with persistent pain that healthcare finds difficult to alleviate. But a new path is starting to emerge—one that runs through the skin and the signals of pleasant touch. At the ...

Igor Fernandes, assistant professor in Purdue University’s Department of Health and Kinesiology, is the 2025 recipient of the Arthur C. Guyton Award for Excellence in Integrative Physiology and ...

Two types of neurons in the skin may be particularly important for how the brain interprets social contact between people, according to a new study led by Linköping University in Sweden. Knowledge of ...

Two types of neurons in the skin may be particularly important for how the brain interprets social contact between people, according to a new study led by Linköping University. Knowledge of how the ...

New research led by scientists from the University of Pennsylvania, Karolinska Institute and Linköping University provides a landscape view of the human sense of touch. Humans perceive touch, ...

Microneurography is a method that allows the researchers to listen to the nerve signalling in one nerve cell at a time. No less than 16 different types of nerve cells have been identified by ...

Microneurographic sensors provide a powerful means of studying peripheral nerve signals for scientific and medical applications. These signals can be used to diagnose neural disorders, understand ...

Older men with chronic kidney disease (CKD) show higher resting muscle sympathetic nerve activity, but not vascular stiffness, compared with older women, offering clues to the underlying reasons why ...

NORMAN, OKLA. – Mikhail Kellawan, an associate professor in the Department of Health and Exercise Science and director of the Human Circulation Research Laboratory at the University of Oklahoma, has ...