At every moment, your body’s internal organs are sending signals to your brain. You’ll be mostly unaware of them, but sometimes they cut through: for example when you’re hungry, or when you need to go ...

Your nervous system is constantly bombarded with sensory signals from all around you — whether in your real or online life — and it can adversely affect your mental health, researchers say. The key to ...

The treatment was unusual in that alongside talk therapy, May underwent several sessions in a sensory-deprivation chamber: a dark, soundproof room where she floated in a shallow pool of water heated ...

The body is constantly scanning itself and recalibrating accordingly. Interoception, the perception of internal bodily sensations, plays a crucial role in regulating essential physiological processes, ...

It is a question that feels like it should have a straightforward answer: how many senses do humans have? Growing up, most of us learned that there are five main senses – sight, smell, hearing, taste, ...

April Smith receives funding from the Department of Defense and the National Institute of Health. Did you know that anorexia is the most lethal mental health condition? One person dies from an eating ...