Because the drug doesn’t target the brain, it has less potential for addiction. Learn why this could help the opioid crisis.

FDA approves Journavx, a non-opioid medication for moderate to severe acute pain. Learn about its efficacy and side effects.

Explore how chemotherapy causes peripheral neuropathy in 40% of cancer patients. Learn about the risk factors and the need ...

Worldwide, cancer chemotherapy is linked to persistent severe peripheral nerve pain (neuropathy) for around 4 in every 10 patients treated with these drugs, suggests a pooled data analysis of the ...

The Central Nervous System and Pain Perception The central nervous system (CNS), comprising the brain and spinal cord, plays a crucial role in how the body perceives pain. Under normal circumstances, ...

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

The somatosensory system consists of the peripheral receptors and neural pathways through which the nervous system detects and processes information about touch (mechanoception), pain (nociception ...

People who have trigeminal neuralgia (TN), which is also called tic douloureux, experience chronic pain in the trigeminal, or fifth cranial, nerve. Symptoms of TN range from a constant ache to a ...