Nociception is the form of somatic sensation that detects potentially tissue-damaging noxious stimuli.

However this is not its only function, it also generates the somatic sensations that accompany emotions.

His initial investigations involved determining how much activation at specific sites in the brain was required to trigger artificial somatic sensations, relying on routine psychophysical procedures.

Amorphosynthesis is a medical condition where the patient is unaware of somatic sensations from one side of the body; the right side is most commonly affected.

Parietal lobe signs usually involve somatic sensation, and may include:

The sad-ness itself will already be an explanation of a somatic sensation or mental phenomenon.

Blix is best known for his work in the 1880s involving somatic sensation.

The somatosensory cortex is involved in somatic sensation, visual stimuli, and movement planning.

The somatic sensations, the feared stimuli of phobophobia, are sought to be controlled by the patient to reduce the effects of phobophobia.

The new somatic sensations may be interpreted as symptoms.