BENGALURU: Chronic physical pain can be debilitating, but feelings of stress, fear and hunger can sometimes suppress painful sensations. Neurons in different parts of the brain play a role in ...

Key findings show the lateral parabrachial nucleus significantly influences pain processing and response while signals from the lateral hypothalamus can reduce pain responses. These insights could ...

PACAP is a neuropeptide involved in stress regulation, and the authors studied neurons in a part of the brain called the parabrachial nucleus that produce PACAP and project to the dorsal raphe ...