{"id":152365,"date":"2022-12-10T03:22:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T09:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/describing-the-genes-associated-with-the-sixth-sense"},"modified":"2022-12-10T03:22:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T09:22:45","slug":"describing-the-genes-associated-with-the-sixth-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/describing-the-genes-associated-with-the-sixth-sense","title":{"rendered":"Describing the genes associated with the sixth sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/describing-the-genes-associated-with-the-sixth-sense.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To perform coordinated movements, we rely on special sensory neurons in our muscles and joints. Without them, the brain wouldn\u2019t know what the rest of our body was doing. A team led by Niccol\u00f2 Zampieri has studied their molecular markers to better understand how they work and describes the results in Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>Sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch: We\u2019re all familiar with the five senses that allow us to experience our surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>Equally important but much less well known is the sixth sense: \u201cIts job is to collect information from the muscles and joints about our movements, our posture and our position in space, and then pass that on to our central nervous system,\u201d says Dr. Niccol\u00f2 Zampieri, head of the Development and Function of Neural Circuits Lab at the Max Delbr\u00fcck Center in Berlin. \u201cThis sense, known as proprioception, is what allows the central nervous system to send the right signals through <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/motor+neurons\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">motor neurons<\/a> to muscles so that we can perform a specific movement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To perform coordinated movements, we rely on special sensory neurons in our muscles and joints. Without them, the brain wouldn\u2019t know what the rest of our body was doing. A team led by Niccol\u00f2 Zampieri has studied their molecular markers to better understand how they work and describes the results in Nature Communications. Sight, hearing, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}