The midbrain regulates crucial functions like hearing, vision, movement, pain, sleep, and consciousness. Conditions such as stroke or Parkinson's disease can affect the midbrain, leading to symptoms ...
Researchers have found a brain pathway that makes pain feel worse than it physically is. This emotional amplifier could explain why chronic pain and conditions like PTSD are so hard to treat. Credit: ...
Even a brief jab from a pin or the sting of a hot pan can leave behind pain that lingers as dread, worry, and distress. Researchers have now pinpointed a strand of nerve cells that splice those ...
What if your brain is the reason some pain feels unbearable? Scientists at the Salk Institute have discovered a hidden brain circuit that gives pain its emotional punch—essentially transforming ...
Salk scientists uncover a key neural circuit in mice that gives pain its emotional punch, opening new doors for treating fibromyalgia, migraine, and PTSD LA JOLLA (July 9, 2025)—Pain isn’t just a ...
A popular weight-loss drug may be changing how doctors treat obesity—but scientists are just starting to uncover exactly how it works inside the brain. A group of researchers from the University of ...
ALTHOUGH our Puritan ancestors may have thought that pain was a scourge of God to try the soul of man, few modern philosophers would agree with this concept. The attempt to control chronic pain by ...
A pinched nerve occurs when there is pressure or force on an area of a nerve, causing it to send pain signals to the brain. Most instances are mild, and a person can often treat them at home. This ...
1 Department of Radiology, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China 2 Department of Pain, Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong, China Objective: ...
Pain and itch are distinct sensations arousing evasion and compulsive desire for scratching, respectively. It’s unclear whether they could invoke different neural networks in the brain. Here, we use ...
In a nutshell: When you think of gold, images of jewelry or bullion probably come to mind. But a team from Linköping University in Sweden has used the metal to create electrodes for interfacing with ...
In a recent study led by Soman Abraham from Duke University, investigators observed that an increase in nociceptive sensory nerves in urinary tract biopsies from patients with recurrent urinary tract ...
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