Pain arises from the activation of specialised sensory receptors—nociceptors—by potentially damaging mechanical, thermal or chemical stimuli. Signals from these receptors travel along Aδ and C fibres ...
A research team led by Prof. HU Li at the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has revealed that parvalbumin (PV) interneurons in the primary somatosensory cortex (S1) ...