Since their 2010 discovery, PIEZO channels have been implicated in our ability to sense touch and pain, to understand how our bodies are positioned in space (proprioception), to perceive our body ...

The interaction between homeostasis-disturbing stressors and stressor-activated adaptive responses of the organism can have three potential outcomes. First, the match may be perfect and the ...

Homeostasis is the maintenance of a constant internal environment to keep conditions at an optimum. The nervous system and hormones are responsible for this. Hormones close hormoneChemical ...

Sensory processing disorder—also known as SPD or sensory integration disorder—is a term describing a collection of challenges that occur when the senses fail to respond properly to the outside ...

Behind human tool-use abilities lays the brain capacity to incorporate tools into the body representation for action (Body Schema, BS), thought to rely mainly on proprioceptive information. Here, we ...

This video demonstrates how the eye works and what happens if someone is long or short sighted.

While ion channels have been implicated in maintaining cellular homeostasis, their cell surface localization often places them among the first few molecules to sense external cues. Mechanosensitive ...

Correspondence to Dr Zhiqi Zhang, Department of Joint Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University First Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou 510080, China; zhzhiqi{at}mail.sysu.edu.cn; Dr Weiming Liao; ...