Researchers at UC Santa Barbara identified a pain pathway in fruit flies that reduces the sensation of pain from heat. The researchers discovered that just a single neuron on each side of the animal’s ...

Our ears have built-in secret "bodyguards" that protect them from extremely loud, potentially damaging noise, researchers say. A newly detected connection between the inner ear and the brain can warn ...

Inner hair cells (IHCs) and outer hair cells (OHCs) in the cochlear organ of Corti (OOC) are destroyed by high-amplitude, persistent sound; however, because the OOC is not innervated by somatosensory ...

The identity of cortical circuits mediating nociception and pain is largely unclear. The cingulate cortex is consistently activated during pain, but the functional specificity of cingulate divisions, ...

In nociception, a range of G-Protein-Coupled Receptors (GPCRs) plays extremely important roles. By modulating the function of a wide variety of ion channels, GPCRs also signal molecules in the case of ...

A research team led by Félix Viana, co-director of the Sensory Transduction and Nociception laboratory at the Institute for ...