A Reddit user claims to have regained feeling in their previously numb foot after receiving a bite from a brown recluse spider. "I had major foot surgery over 10 years ago and lost feeling in two of ...

The clitoris may be one of the least understood organs of the female anatomy. It may be pea-sized, but it packs a powerful punch thanks to thousands of nerve endings and an exclusive, unique function ...

Here’s a new piece of trivia to toss out at a party sometime: The human clitoris seems to contain more than 10,000 nerve endings. Researchers this month are apparently the first to try counting the ...

Researchers from Imperial College London have uncovered a previously unknown method by which humans perceive light touches through hair follicles. It was conventionally believed that only nerve ...

When we eat spicy food containing chillies, a substance in them called capsaicin binds to receptors on the nerve endings in ...

Nerve cells that sense touch grow the appropriate endings for hairy or hairless skin based on cues from the skin itself, rather than through predetermined programming, according to research led by ...

Neuropathy describes a condition where the body experiences a slow degradation of the nerve endings. The nerves feature a “myelin sheath” that covers the ends. Neuropathy patients see a diminishment ...

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