Nearly everyone is familiar with the feeling of accidentally touching a hot vessel or holding onto something freezing for too long. Normally, pain serves to protect from potential harm, but when the ...
PHILADELPHIA - The U.S. medical community needs a better understanding of the biology of pain and how it plays out in individuals to be able to combat the national epidemic of addiction to painkillers ...
A research article published last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) offers hope for the pain- and opioid-crises. In “Mind-Body Therapies for Opioid-Treated Pain: A ...
Pain is one of our senses – like vision, hearing, or taste. It aids our survival by identifying noxious and harmful stimuli. But unlike the other sensations, it's ethically challenging for us to study ...
An estimated 16 million people in the United States have alcohol use disorders (AUDs), according to the National Institutes on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). Now, Indiana University researchers ...
Research outlines effective treatments for reducing chronic pain. Source: Charles Thompson/Pixabay A research article published last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association offers ...