We usually think of bodily sensations as information the brain receives. What if the way we attend to those sensations can ...

Voluntary attention to inflammation-related bodily sensations reduced the magnitude of histamine-induced skin inflammation ...

Burning sensations can happen due to nerve damage, infections, or skin inflammation. If the burning sensation worsens, it’s ...

Research has increasingly shown that a key component of staying mentally healthy is our ability to sense, interpret, and integrate various body signals. This concept of feeling sensations is called ...

If you have eaten a chili pepper, you have likely felt how your body reacts to the spicy hot sensation. New research published by biologists at the University of Oklahoma shows that the brain ...

You never really know what another person is going through. (Solipsists go as far as to say that you are the only conscious being in existence.) Some might be able to articulate their experiences, but ...

What is the matter with Mary Jane? She’s crying with all her might and main, And she won’t eat her dinner—rice pudding again— What is the matter with Mary Jane? A.A. Milne’s poem about miserable Mary ...

A new study of the Turku PET Center in Finland has shown that music evokes similar emotions and bodily sensations around the world. Music can be felt directly in the body. When we hear our favorite ...

The physical sensations that accompany sadness can feel as undesirable as they are intense – a constriction of the chest, watery eyes and a raw throat, to name a few. But Norman Farb, an associate ...

Anxiety can affect us in a variety of ways. There is an extensive link between anxiety and the nervous system, or rather a nervous system dysregulation. Thinking of it in terms of our body's fight or ...

Biologists have found that the brain categorizes taste, temperature and pain-related sensations in a common region of the brain and that the brain also groups these sensations together as either ...