Experts at SICP 2025 outline how molecular mechanisms and bedside assessments can guide personalised treatment for ...

Researchers at Tulane University have identified a previously unknown mechanism that activates pain signaling in the nervous system, a discovery that could reshape future drug development and offer ...

A new study shows that abstinent smokers experience heightened pain sensitivity linked to altered activity in specific brain ...

Pain, often rated as the most significant symptom of hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), can substantially reduce quality of life and increase the risk of disability and chronic opioid use. Although the ...

Neuropathic pain, resulting from disturbances within the somatosensory system, affects millions worldwide, significantly ...

Neuropathic pain -- abnormal hypersensitivity to stimuli -- is associated with impaired quality of life and is often poorly managed. Estimates suggest that 3 percent to 17 percent of adults suffer ...

The sense of touch can be crucial to helping us interact with and understand our environment and our selves, and it is found all over and even within the body. There are two ion channels called Piezo1 ...

Correspondence to Dr Mikkel Bek Clausen, Department of Midwifery, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Psychomotor Therapy, Faculty of Health, University College Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; ...

Mindfulness meditation is effective in reducing pain relief; a new study reveals the underlying neural circuitry. For centuries, people have been using mindfulness meditation to try to relieve their ...

The detailed mechanism of how the placebo effect reduces the perception of pain in rats has been uncovered by RIKEN neuroscientists. These findings, published in Science Advances, could potentially ...

Three floors below Dmitriy Sheyn’s lab at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, doctors remove degenerated intervertebral discs from patients with severe back pain. Instead of tossing the old discs, however, ...