Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Worse pain was linked with lower disease understanding and coping with “comforting cognitions.” 38% of patients ...

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The thermal grill illusion (TGI) is a striking phenomenon in which the simultaneous application of interlaced warm and cool stimuli to the skin produces paradoxical sensations of burning heat and pain ...

Co-authored by neuroplastician, speaker, and author Jasmine Benson. Imagine you take a sugar pill, believing it to be a powerful painkiller, and your pain actually diminishes. Is it all in your head, ...

In a study published in Nature Human Behaviour on Oct. 9, researchers led by Profs. TU Yiheng and HU Li from the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have uncovered a neural ...

Professor Fan Wang’s research is zeroing in on brain circuits that control the perception of pain. Her work could one day make it possible to manage pain without opioids. Fan Wang spends most of her ...

Pain perception in affected individuals is more strongly influenced by learned fear than in healthy individuals. Changes along the gut-brain axis related to chronic inflammation may explain this. Many ...

Left-handedness has always been something of a mystery. If you’re among the roughly 10 percent of the population that favors their left hand, you’ve probably heard all kinds of theories about your ...

A new study has found that the brain system enabling us to inhibit our own pain changes with age, and that gender-based differences in those changes may lead females to be more sensitive to moderate ...

Try and think back, if you will, to the last time you were in intense pain. Do you remember anything else about the scene? In all likelihood, you don’t. Was it a nice day out? Was there a lovely scent ...