Scientists at the Salk Institute have uncovered how a cluster of thalamic neurons links physical pain to emotional trauma, ...

Scientists have discovered a brain circuit that gives pain its emotional sting, explaining why some hurts linger as suffering ...

For chronic pain patients, though, the brain interprets even neutral sensations as pain and suffering. In effect, pain ...

Pain isn't just a physical sensation-it also carries emotional weight. That distress, anguish, and anxiety can turn a ...

Pain is more than a physical signal — it also carries emotional weight that shapes our response and memory of discomfort.

Thick and Thin. First, researchers must answer a basic question: how is pain felt? As long ago as 1826, Johannes Peter Müller promulgated the “law of specific nerve energies.” He suggested ...

Rainbow trout fish suffer around 10 minutes of intense pain when killed by air. Electric stunning could cut this significantly.

Researchers have found a new and distinct pathway for chronic pain and have mapped how to target it with therapies, offering hope for people with fibromyalgia and chronic pain.

Physiological Pathway Identified for Chronic Pain, Providing New Drug Targets Researchers have found a new and distinct pathway for chronic pain and have mapped how to target it with therapies.

In a new discovery, chronic pain has been shown to be physiologically different from acute pain and now scientists have the roadmap for how to target it. Researchers from the University ...