For instance, the somatic nervous system lets you control muscles and perceive touch, taste, smell, and sound. What's more, it can help you sense pain in a certain part of the body that actually ...
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Scientists are studying the “sixth sense” that humans have after the NIH grants $14.2 million in funding
They will learn how we look inside ourselves.
The five senses are familiar to us: sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell. Amelia Chapman says we should add at least two more to the list: proprioception and vestibular sense. Proprioception relates ...
LA JOLLA, CA—How does your brain know when you need to breathe, when your blood pressure drops or when you’re fighting an infection? The answer lies in interoception: an understudied process by which ...
We’ve turned survival responses into a black-and-white idea: pathology or wisdom. This is what we miss when we do that, and ...
Your sympathetic nervous system is one of the branches of your autonomic nervous system. It controls functions under unconscious control related to “fight or flight.” Your nervous system plays a ...
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