The gentlest breeze and the roughest sandpaper are detected by mechanoreceptor neurons embedded in the skin and analogous neurons embedded in other tissues provide continuous reports of body position ...

The effects of this treatment were specific to unmyelinated fibers (responsible for pain sensation), while thick myelinated nerve fibers (responsible for touch and mechanoreceptor sensations) remained ...

The composition of nodes that effectively transmit sinusoidal waves in a model network resembling C. elegans' electrical synapses network changes according to the waves' wavenumber.

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