The brain is the command center for your body, and the spinal cord is the pathway for messages sent by the brain to ... Sensory Functions – monitors sensation of touch, pressure, temperature and pain.

A study published in Pain Reports adds a new piece to the puzzle, showing spinal disinhibition — disruption of the spinal cord’s inhibitory systems that modulate pain signals — in people ...

Research based on this theory has investigated physiological mechanisms at every level of the pathway ... on chronic pain and postulated that neural gates in the spinal cord can be opened or ...

A network of nerves similar to wires runs all through the human body, from the tips of your fingers and toes, through your ...

It blocks signals in the pain pathways and also increases feelings ... A particular type of neuron that wires to the spinal cord was found to play a central role in the 'morphine ensemble." ...

The Food and Drug Administration announced the approval of a new non-opioid pain medication this week, marking the first time ...

In a new study, scientists at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (LIN) and University Hospital Magdeburg demonstrated ...

He also completed a fellowship in interventional pain management at Harvard Medical School’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Shah performs spine and joint injections as well as advanced ...

In a ground-breaking study, scientists at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (LIN) and University Hospital Magdeburg demonstrated that the spinal cord is far more than just a transmission pathway ...