COPENHAGEN, Denmark, March 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Mount St. Mary's University alumnus David Ginty, Ph.D., C'84, has been named a recipient of The Brain Prize, the world's largest neuroscience ...
The Brain Prize 2026 is awarded to Professors David Ginty (US) and Patrik Ernfors (Sweden) for their pioneering discoveries on how the nervous system detects and processes touch and pain. Their work ...
Autism impacts kids and adults socially and behaviorally — but it also impacts their senses. For instance autistic individuals may dislike being touched, or be especially averse to things like ...
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are characterized by impaired social interactions and repetitive behaviors, often accompanied by abnormal reactions to sensory stimuli. ASD is generally thought to be ...
The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Mammalian nervous systems resemble complex roadmaps, with projections from trillions of cells threading their way within and ...
Details of the observation in lab mice, published Dec. 24 in Nature, reveal that semaphorin, a protein found in the developing nervous system that guides filament-like processes, called axons, from ...
Compared to our other senses, scientists don't know much about how our skin is wired for the sensation of touch. Now, new research provides the first picture of how specialized neurons feel light ...
Scientists define five types of colon neurons specialized for sending different signals to the brain. The gut-brain connection is a complicated two-way signaling cascade that is responsible for ...
The Brain Prize 2026 is awarded to Professors David Ginty (US) and Patrik Ernfors (Sweden) for their pioneering discoveries on how the nervous system detects and processes touch and pain. Their work ...