For the nearly 20% of adults battling chronic pain daily, each morning brings the same question: Will today hurt less than ...

Research reveals howneurogenic connection can directly trigger inflammatory processes, creating pain patterns that challenge ...

Summary: Viewing natural scenes can significantly reduce how people perceive pain, a new neuroimaging study has found.

Touch a hot plate and your hand flies back. While the response is almost instant, researchers are still working to better ...

Convincing evidence now suggests that classifying neuropathic pain according to a mechanism-based rather than an etiology-based approach might help in targeting therapy to the individual patient ...

Watching nature reduces pain by changing brain activity. Scientists used fMRI scans to show that natural scenes weaken pain ...

New research has identified cannabis-derived terpenes—compounds that give plants their distinctive aroma—as effective ...

Researchers are working to understand the mechanisms underlying swearing’s impact in a number of circumstances, with a major ...

A research team has uncovered the neural mechanisms underlying the processing of pain and itch in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). This study provides new insights into how the brain distinguishes ...

6 Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre, Research Institute for Primary Care & Health Sciences and Keele Clinical Trials Unit, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK The need for pain to be avoided ...

A new study led by University of Calgary professor Dr. Tuan Trang, Ph.D., may help to explain why there are more women experiencing chronic pain than men. In 2019, the Canadian Pain Task Force report ...

Using an fMRI scanner, researchers monitored the brain activity of 49 participants in Austria, as they received pain ...