A tickly itch, a painful scratch, or the feeling of a refreshing breeze—the skin is teaming with nerve endings that drive these sensations. Scientists are getting into the epidermis to explore how ...

In a nutshell While scratching worsens allergic skin conditions like eczema by increasing inflammation, it also activates a ...

Researchers discovered that epithelial cells that line human skin are able to communicate danger to the body through a silent ...

How does itch suppression work? Different kinds of sensory nerve fibers relay signals from the skin to the spinal cord where a series of interneurons, or connector neurons, are activated. From there, ...

State-of-the-art tests like Electro Myography, nerve conduction studies and nerve or skin biopsies may corroborate or refute a doctor's initial suspicions that the pain is in fact caused by ...