The somatosensory system decodes a wide range of tactile stimuli and thus endows us with
a remarkable capacity for object recognition, texture discrimination, sensory-motor feedback …

The motor cortex plays a crucial role in the co-ordination of movement and posture. This is
possible because the pyramidal tract fibres have access both directly and through collateral …

Koltzenburg, Martin, Cheryl L. Stucky, and Gary R. Lewin. Receptive properties of mouse
sensory neurons innervating hairy skin. J. Neurophysiol. 78: 1841–1850, 1997. Using an in …

Tooth loss and its replacement have significant functional and psychosocial consequences.
The removal of intra-dental and periodontal mechanoreception accompanying tooth loss …

Studies show that while the cortical mechanisms of two-dimensional (2D) form and motion
processing are similar in touch and vision, the mechanisms of three-dimensional (3D) shape …

Tactile nerve fibers fall into a few classes that can be readily distinguished based on their
spatiotemporal response properties. Because nerve fibers reflect local skin deformations …

It is now about 10 years since the first edition of Nerve Cells and Nervous Systems was
published. There have been many important advances across the whole field of neuro …

The neurophysiological effects of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) for chronic pain are poorly
understood, resulting in inefficient failure-prone programming protocols and inadequate …

Using ultra-high field 7 Tesla (7T) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we map
the cortical and perceptual responses elicited by intraneural microstimulation (INMS) of …

The wing membrane of the big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus) is covered by a sparse grid of
microscopic hairs. We showed previously that various tactile receptors (eg, lanceolate …