From the University of Chicago press release by William Harms via ScienceDaily: Mathematics anxiety can prompt a response in the brain similar to when a person experiences physical pain, according to new research at the…
From the Duke University Medical Center press release via ScienceDaily: While studying the sense of touch, scientists at Duke Medicine have pinpointed specific neurons that appear to regulate perception. The sensory neurons are characterized by…
From the Ohio State University press release via EurekAlert!: Companionship has the potential to reduce pain linked to nerve damage, according to a new study. Mice that were paired with a cage-mate showed lower pain…
From the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center press release via EurekAlert!: With the discovery that the unconscious mind plays a key role in the placebo effect, researchers have identified a novel mechanism that helps explain…
From the University of South Australia press release via HealthCanal: Einstein’s famous theory of relativity proposed that matter can distort space and time. Now a new study recently published in the journal Neurology suggests that…
From the Queensland University of Technology press release via HealthCanal: Parents’ response to their children’s pain can have a significant effect on children’s pain experiences during medical procedures and every day bumps and scrapes. A…
From the Northwestern University press release via EurekAlert!: When people have similar injuries, why do some end up with chronic pain while others recover and are pain free? The first longitudinal brain imaging study to…
From the Cell Press press release: Mental distractions make pain easier to take, and those pain-relieving effects aren’t just in your head, according to a report published online on May 17 in Current Biology, a…
From the Elsevier Health Sciences press release via EurekAlert!: Stories of athletes bravely “playing through the pain” are relatively common and support the widespread belief that they experience pain differently than non-athletes. Yet, the scientific…
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…