Itching in older patients should not be dismissed as simply dry skin, but rather approached as a complex problem involving ...

Kiun, director of the Center for Cognition and Sociality within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), and Ko Hyoung-Gon, ...

Researchers discovered that pain and itch are processed by separate neuronal circuits in the anterior cingulate cortex. Using ...

Based on these findings, Kaplan hypothesized that scratching could exacerbate inflammation by amplifying allergen-mediated mast cell activation with the pain-sensing pathway. Researchers have ...

When John (patient name changed for privacy) visited our clinic in 2019, he had been driving for five hours straight. A retired widower, John had been looking forward to relaxing in his golden years.

Are these neurons part of the long sought-after neural pathway for itch? The answer to this question could be important for the development of antipruritogenic drugs. Chronic itch is a ...

Mice that were free to scratch their itchy ears saw the number of immune cells go up and levels of infection-causing bacteria decline ...

so the reason that scratching triggers more inflammation in the skin is because mast cells have been synergistically activated through two pathways.” The urge to scratch an itch is pretty hard ...