Studies shed light on pain perception, placebo effect pathways, and how human stem cells can be used to model pain.

GREENVILLE, S.C. (WSPA) – Chest pain can range from dull aches to crippling discomfort. Several different factors may be the ...

“The more we learn about it, the more we realize that movement is a critical part of retraining pain pathways.” With practice, movement-based therapies become more and more effective for pain control.

A research team at the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has revealed that parvalbumin (PV) interneurons in the primary somatosensory cortex (S1) preferentially encode pain ...