Human biology is very much like that of other mammals, and yet so very different in areas where it matters. One of these being human neurology, with aspects like the human brain and the somatosensory ...

Stanford Medicine investigators have replicated, in a lab dish, one of the most prominent human nervous pathways for sensing pain. This nerve circuit transmits sensations from the body’s skin to the ...

A new study reveals how the brain rewires sensorimotor pathways to preserve walking stability during visual impairment.

For the more than 50 million Americans living with chronic pain, the question has always been the same: why does it stay? A torn ligament heals. A surgical wound closes. Yet the pain persists, ...