A tickly itch, a painful scratch, or the feeling of a refreshing breeze—the skin is teaming with nerve endings that drive these sensations. Scientists are getting into the epidermis to explore how ...

These patients had sustained damage to their median nerve, which runs down the arm and provides motor and sensory links to ...

How does itch suppression work? Different kinds of sensory nerve fibers relay signals from the skin to the spinal cord where a series of interneurons, or connector neurons, are activated. From there, ...

The electric skin cell signals, which move at glacial pace compared to those in nerve cells, may play a role in initiating healing.

State-of-the-art tests like Electro Myography, nerve conduction studies and nerve or skin biopsies may corroborate or refute a doctor's initial suspicions that the pain is in fact caused by ...

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