Approximately 60 to 80 of individuals with an amputation experience phantom sensations in their amputated limb, and the majority of the sensations are painful.

The junk food industry is really great at pressing our pleasure buttons and figuring out what's the most pleasurable.

Tickling appears to be caused by unexpected sensations on certain areas of the skin.

In many societies, men have the power to determine whether sex is safe or unsafe, forced or consensual, pleasurable or painful.

Fads and sensations tend to grow rapidly on the Internet, because the instant communication facilitates word of mouth transmission.

And that's that all the sensations, feelings, decisions and actions are mediated by the computer in your head called the brain.

Participants develop the capacity to allow distressing moods, thoughts, and sensations to come and go, without having to battle with them.

I kept pushing to 10 minutes. At 10 minutes you start getting all these really strong tingling sensations in your fingers and toes.

OK, now, I want you to be aware of all the different sensations around you, because we're going to try a voodoo experiment right now.

The sensory neurons coming from the body synapse in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord, bringing in information about touch sensations (epicritic), or modalities of pain (protopathic).

In clinical studies about 1 of all patients had to discontinue the drug because of these sensations, which occurred on average 40 days after commencement of the drug.

Alwar Balasubramaniam's sculpture plays with time, shape, shadow, perspective four tricky sensations that can reveal or conceal what's really out there. At TEDIndia, the artist shows slides of his extraordinary installations.

Because the brain of a person trying to tickle herself anticipates the sensations that will be caused by her fingers a process performed within the cerebellum the sensation no longer tickles.

Segments of the population have been marginalized and excluded for decades. Today, people in these groups seem to have realized that they can rise fast in society and become sensations if they turn to violence.

And they and they have these big meetings where they try to figure out how we're going to how we're going to continually prove that the planet is getting warmer, when that's actually contrary to most people's sensations.

In this rather long sort of marathon presentation, I've tried to break it up into three parts the first being a whole lot of examples on how it can be a little bit more pleasurable to deal with a computer and really address the qualities of the human interface.

You can, however, succeed in tickling yourself through an intermediary a machine, for instance, that translates the movements of your fingers into sensations on the skin by a method indirect enough for the cerebellum to be unable to anticipate them.

Fair seeming is made unto men the love of pleasurable things from women and children and talents heaped up of gold and silver and horses branded up and cattle and tilth . All that is the enjoyment of the life of the World , and Allah ! with Him is the best resort .

Ambiguous reports simply of irritation should be excluded as this term is commonly used to describe a wide range of sensations including those such as smell, unpleasant taste, a tickling sensation, and dryness, which are outside the scope of this classification endpoint

But if you remove the arm, you simply anesthetize my arm, so you put an injection into my arm, anesthetize the brachial plexus, so the arm is numb, and there is no sensations coming in, if I now watch you being touched, I literally feel it in my hand.