Chronic pain affects millions and often resists medical treatment. German researchers are exploring how the brain’s pain ...

Researchers at Tulane University, with a team of colleagues from eight other universities, have discovered a new nerve cell ...

Researchers have uncovered a surprising way the brain switches pain on, revealing that neurons can release an enzyme outside ...

Tulane researchers discovered a new pain signaling mechanism that could lead to safer, more effective treatments and reshape ...

Researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas' Center for Advanced Pain Studies (CAPS) and their colleagues have made a ...

New research reveals that neurons release a little-understood extracellular kinase called VLK to strengthen synaptic ...

Chronic pain might quietly push people toward developing high blood pressure—and the more widespread the pain, the greater ...

Chronic pain is a daily reality for millions of Americans, interfering with their everyday activities and quality of life. An ...

Nobody likes to feel pain, but it’s something every person will experience at some point in their life. But why is that? I am a neuroscientist, and my job is to research why and how people feel pain ...

Physical therapist Kerri Tuttle starts her patients off with a quiz. Most, she’s found, miss two key questions: Do pain receptors send a pain message to the brain, and does pain come from the brain?

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