From the Elsevier Health Sciences press release via EurekAlert!: Health professionals commonly say, “Don’t look and it won’t hurt” before administering an injection, but is there any scientific basis for… Read more »
From the Johns Hopkins Medicine press release via Newswise: Chronic pain sufferers who learn to dwell less on their ailments may sleep better and experience less day-to-day pain, according to… Read more »
From the University of Western Australia press release via HealthCanal: An international researcher based in Perth has found that workers who resign themselves to work in unsatisfactory jobs are more… Read more »
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: “Broken-hearted” isn’t just a metaphor—social pain and physical pain have a lot in common, according to Naomi Eisenberger of the University of… Read more »
From the Medical University of Vienna press release via MedicalXPress: A team of researchers led by Stefan Seidel from the University Department of Neurology at the MedUni Vienna has demonstrated… Read more »
From the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) press release via AlphaGalileo: Pain? Just turn it off! It may sound like science fiction, but researchers based in Munich, Berkeley and Bordeaux have now… Read more »
From the McGill University press release: For some, the pain is so great that they can’t even bear to have clothes touch their skin. For others, it means that every… Read more »
From the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons press release via EurekAlert!: Increased pain following surgery has long been linked to anxiety and “catastrophizing,” an extreme response to stress. In a… Read more »
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Placebos reduce pain by creating an expectation of relief. Distraction—say, doing a puzzle—relieves it by keeping the brain busy. But do they… Read more »
From the Stanford University Medical Center press release: Women report more-intense pain than men in virtually every disease category, according to Stanford University School of Medicine investigators who mined a… Read more »
