A decade ago, at age 55, Don Lewis suffered a stroke in his sleep. When he woke up, he couldn't move his left arm or leg.

In November 2025, researchers at Queen Mary University of London and University College London announced a discovery that ...

You reach for your morning coffee without even looking. You walk downstairs in the dark. You catch yourself before you fall.

“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 ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...

We all know about our five senses and the importance they play in our daily lives: smell, taste, sight, sound and touch. Some scientists say that we have many more that just five senses, and they ...

Maintaining balance and stability becomes increasingly important as we age, particularly after 60. Falls are a leading cause ...

Severe locomotor impairment is a common phenotype of neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s disease (PD). Drosophila models of PD, studied for more than a decade, have helped in understanding ...