“Proprioception is your ability to sense the position and movement of your body,” Amy Morris, a graduate student in the Department of Psychology, said. Proprioception is what allows you to type on a ...

Traditional senses, along with the newly discovered ones, are complex in nature. Touch is not just skin contact, but also pressure, itching, temperature, and pain. Similarly, taste is not just signals ...

Proprioception significantly improved prosthetic control in the absence of vision, new research has shown. When patients are fitted with a robotic prosthetic limb, they gain control over their ...

Faculty of Physical Education and Sports Science, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary Dr G Pánics, Faculty of Physical Education and Sports Science, Semmelweis University, Szabolcska Mihály u.3.

Researchers have created a prosthetic hand that offers its users the ability to feel where it is and how the fingers are positioned — a sense known as proprioception. The headline may be in jest, but ...

The key to the surgical technique, demonstrated in rats so far, is to emulate the normal agonist-antagonist pairing of muscles (think biceps and triceps) at the amputation site so that the muscles and ...

Low back pain in the elderly is the result of poor 'proprioception,' or the body's ability to perceive its own position in space, caused by a deterioration of sensory receptors in their muscles called ...

Since the publication of Brain Sense, I've received a lot of emails and phone calls from some wonderful, interesting people who found something in the book that struck a cord with them. One such ...