Nearly a century has passed since writer Virginia Woolf alerted us to the breakdown of language when confronted with pain.

Scientists have discovered a new mechanism that acts via an immune cell and points toward a different way of treating chronic ...

Scientists have discovered a new mechanism that acts via an immune cell and points toward a different way of treating chronic ...

Typically, people who are higher on the psychopathic traits spectrum show greater pain tolerance. And this is usually ...

It may be disturbing to characterize human bodies in such commodifying terms, but the unavoidable reality is that human ...

Venetia Zachariou, PhD, Edward Avedisian Professor and chair of pharmacology, physiology & biophysics at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, has received a Distinguished ...

This binding action stimulates different cell responses that influence pain signaling pathways. As with any substance with claimed therapeutic effects, there can be advantages and drawbacks to ...

Perhaps most promising are the new medications designed to interrupt specific pain pathways rather than broadly suppressing all pain signals. By targeting only the problematic neural circuits ...

It made me wonder: What happens to kids like this when they grow up? What does that kind of pain do to a person? And how does it affect their relationships as adults? Childhood trauma—whether it ...

They have long been considered a potential target for non-opioid-based pain treatment; however, previous attempts to target this pathway have been met with two challenges. First, repeated exposure to ...

They have long been considered a potential target for non-opioid-based pain treatment; however, previous attempts to target this pathway have been met with two challenges. First, repeated exposure to ...

These findings challenge the conventional assumption that pain and itch signals follow overlapping pathways and instead highlight distinct neural mechanisms for each sensation. Given that the ACC ...