Pain is the bodyâ s way of telling us something is wrong. It has a sensory and emotional component. This three-part series focuses on acute pain, describing the physiology of a normal and well-behaved ...

Pain is one of our senses – like vision, hearing, or taste. It aids our survival by identifying noxious and harmful stimuli. But unlike the other sensations, it's ethically challenging for us to study ...

In its simplest form, the pain circuit in the body can be described as follows: pain stimulates pain receptors, and this stimulus is transferred via specialised nerves to the spinal cord and from ...

Jill Schneiderhan, MD, remembers only receiving one or two lectures on basic pain physiology during medical school. Jill Schneiderhan, MD That time was not enough, Schneiderhan said, who is now a ...

I work a lot with physical pain patients and see chronic pain’s devastating effects. As a psychologist, I work with these individuals to find effective ways of struggling through the day even though ...

With just one week to go before the inaugural World Championships in Helsinki, some of the sport's top names are fine-tuning their preparations before jetting off to Finland. As a bridging distance ...

We study the hypothesis according to which plasticity in pain signaling and modulating pathways contributes to long-lasting neuropathic pain, which is a common clinical problem. We study plasticity of ...