When the sensory receptors in the nervous system malfunction, as they’re theorized to do in SPD, common stimuli like lights, noises, and textures may be perceived as too bright, too loud ...

Dan Berkowitz might never have noticed the phenomenon if not for the new lights. In 2012, Johns Hopkins University’s Berkowitz had just moved to a lab space where the lights were motion-activated, and ...

The same genes could hold the key to regenerating cells in the ear and eye, according to a new mouse study from the USC Stem ...

In the scientific field of sensory evaluation, the sensory qualities of food—taste, smell, sight, and texture—are evaluated.

These cells never come in contact with environmental signals like those near the skin but are studded with receptors that appear to get sensory input from hormones, proteins and other biochemical ...