I was born with nerve endings on the outside of my skin. But I was born into a world where most successful people seem to have nerves internally or not at all. My mother had Dr. Spock; all I had were ...

Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have found physical evidence of a previously unknown communication between nerves on opposite sides of the body. In the May 2004 issue of Annals ...

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 ...

If you've got itchy skin, it could be that a microbe making its home on your body has produced a little chemical that's directly acting on your skin's nerve cells and triggering the urge to scratch.

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 ...

Our fingertips have an extraordinarily high sensitivity to touch – and now it looks like that sensitivity might be largely confined to the ridges of our fingerprints. “They really help us get very ...