We were curious why this is,” said Dr. Daniel Kaplan, an immunologist and dermatologist at the University of Pittsburgh who led the work. Naming the players in the itch-scratch circuit is a step ...

Kiun, director of the Center for Cognition and Sociality within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), and Ko Hyoung-Gon, ...

Researchers discovered that pain and itch are processed by separate neuronal circuits in the anterior cingulate cortex. Using synaptic mapping and chemogenetics, they identified stimulus-specific ...

This causes nerve fibres to send itchy signals to your brain. 3. Itches have their own nerve network Until recently we thought that itch and pain both shared the same pathways, but in 1997 a ...

A new study reveals that pain and itch are processed by distinct neural circuits in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC).

but researchers have found that the pathways that mediate touch differ from those that relay itch to the brain. While sensory stimuli are hard to ignore, we can suppress an itch temporarily. For ...

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This study, published in Nature Communications, provides new insights into how the brain distinguishes between these two distinct sensory experiences. Pain and itch are both unpleasant sensations ...

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