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 ...

It is believed that in 30 seconds, the human brain goes through roughly the same amount of information as the Hubble Space Telescope processes in 30 years. Part of that data comes from the world ...

Sarah Garfinkel has received research funding from the Medical Research Council, Wellcome and the MQ Mental Health Research Charity. She holds an unpaid position on the scientific advisory committee ...

Study name: Deep Phenotyping of Interoception in Adolescence: Making the Imperceptible Perceptible We are recruiting youths ages 12 to 17 and their parents to take part in a research study at the ...

Sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing – these are the senses we’re probably all familiar with. But we humans may not be limited to just five: some scientists argue for a “sixth sense” – though there ...

Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, Vol. 371, No. 1708, Theme issue: Interoception beyond homeostasis: affect, cognition and mental health (19 November 2016), pp. 1-15 (15 pages) ...

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, ...