According to a new study, women and men have different sensitivity to pain and women are more likely to suffer from chronic pain conditions.
The tender love of a mother not only helps sooth an infant's pain, it could also have an impact on early brain development, researchers say.
Middle-ages adults are reporting more chronic pain symptoms than older generations. Those who are less educated are more likely to report symptoms of chronic pain.
Infants who do not receive analgesics while undergoing treatment and tests in neonatal intensive care could have permanently altered future responses to anxiety, pain and stress in adulthood, a new study reports.
Researchers have successfully transplanted human neurons to treat symptoms of spinal cord injury in mice. The researchers believe this could pave the way for eventual treatment in humans.
A new study reports people with partners who suffer from depression are more likely to suffer from chronic pain.
A new study looks at why pain enhances some people's ability to perform well.
According to a new study, injecting stem cells extracted from bone marrow could help provide lasting relief from chronic neuropathic pain.
New research finds the pain of social rejection might not prompt the same brain response as physical pain, as previously thought.
Focusing attention on a neural pathway starting at the periaqueductal grey region of the midbrain, researchers made a novel discovery about how dopamine generates different pain responses in male and female mice. Findings indicate dopamine may reduce pain sensitivity in males, whereas, in females, dopamine helps focus attention elsewhere in the presence of pain.
Researchers report pain is a multi-layered gradual event, consisting of sensation and emotion.
Findings could help with the development of new painkillers to target back pain, arthritis and other pain disorders.
