Talk title: Microneurography recordings from mechanoreceptors, nociceptors, and proprioceptors in humans. Abstract: Microneurography is the only non-surgical laboratory research method for recording the responses of single neurons in humans. Since its development in Sweden in the 1960s, microneurography has remained a cutting-edge technique, providing unique insights into sensory coding of touch, pain, and proprioception. It involves the percutaneous insertion of a thin needle electrode into the nerve, typically in a limb of a healthy volunteer, to record action potentials as they are transmitted along the axon from the periphery to the spinal chord. In this talk, you will hear about the strengths, challenges and limitations of the technique. This will include both theoretical and practical considerations, with examples from real experiments from the presenters’ own labs.

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