Although the ability to detect humidity (i.e., hygrosensation) represents an important sensory attribute in many animal species (including humans), the neurophysiological and molecular bases of such sensory ability remain largely unknown in many animals. Recently, Russell and colleagues (Russell J, Vidal-Gadea AG, Makay A, Lanam C, Pierce-Shimomura JT. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 111: 8269-8274, 201...

Many animals have an abundance and diverse assortment of peripheral sensors, both across and within sensory modalities. Multiple sensors offer many functional advantages to an animal's ability to perceive and respond to environmental signals. Advantages include extending the ability to detect and determine the spatial distribution of stimuli, improving the range and accuracy of discrimination a...

Historically, the body's sensory systems have been presumed to provide the brain with raw information about the external environment, which the brain must interpret to select a behavioral response. Consequently, studies of the neurobiology of learning and memory have focused on circuitry that interfaces between sensory inputs and behavioral outputs, such as the amygdala and cerebellum. However,...

The capabilities of any sensory system are ultimately constrained by the properties of the sensory neurons: the ability to detect and represent stimuli is limited by noise due to spontaneous activity, and optimal decoding in downstream circuitry must be matched to the nature of the encoding performed at the input. Here, we investigated the firing properties of sensory neurons in the accessory o...

Primary sensory cortices are generally thought to be devoted to one sensory modality-vision, hearing, or touch, for example. Surprising interactions between these sensory modes have recently been reported. One example demonstrates that people with cochlear implants show increased activity in visual cortex when listening to speech; this may be related to enhanced lipreading ability.

Abstract The aim of this study was to better understand the relation schizotypy traits with sensory gating ability in a sample community-dwelling individuals high and low traits. Sensory assessed through paired click paradigm mid-latency evoked responses (i.e., P50, N100, P200), while were SPQ-BR which used classify participants into “high” “low” groups. Based on prior work, we hypothesized tha...

how to cite this article: azadvari m, emami razavi sz, kazemi sh. hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type iv in 9 year old boy: a case report. iran j child neurol. spring 2016; 10(2):83-85. abstract objective the hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy (hsan) is a rare group of neuropathies that affects the sensory and autonomic nervous system. the patients do not have the ability ...