David Julius, PhD, a pioneer in research clarifying the molecular basis of the sense of pain and temperature, has been named chair of the Department of Physiology in the UCSF School of Medicine.

A physiology professor from University of California, San Francisco has won the Nobel Prize for Medicine for work on pain sensation. David Julius is professor and chair of the Department of Physiology ...

Physiologist David Julius, PhD, University of California San Francisco, and neuroscientist Ardem Patapoutian, PhD, Scripps Research in La Jolla, California, have jointly been awarded the 2021 Nobel ...

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 ...

Pain is good. It’s the body’s way to keep an animal from harming itself or repeating a dangerous mistake. But sometimes the debilitating sensation can get in the way. So evolution has devised ways to ...

Scientists have identified the receptor in cells of the peripheral nervous system that is most responsible for the body’s ability to sense cold. The finding, reported on-line in the journal “Nature” ...

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Mental/emotional pain is processed in similar regions of the brain as physical pain, and both stimulate a flight-or-fight response. Nocioceptive pain refers only to the physical component of pain ...