From the University of Leeds press release: Researchers at the University of Leeds have found a previously unknown mechanism through which pain is signalled by nerve cells. A discovery that could explain the current failings…
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 the advice? A group of…
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 results of research conducted on…
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 likely to suffer from serious,…
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 Califiornia-Los Angeles, the author of…
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 that – and how –…
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 succeeded in inhibiting pain-sensitive neurons…
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 step is a deliberate and…
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 new study presented today at…
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 use the same brain processes?…