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 ...

Chronic pain, defined as pain that persists for more than 3 months, is a major global health problem and affects as many as 100 million adults in the United States alone. Besides the suffering, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Classical conditioning can profoundly modify subsequent pain responses, but the mechanisms that drive this effect are unresolved. In pain-conditioning studies, cues are typically conditioned to ...

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 ...

Pain serves as a warning system for actual or potential tissue damage but has a devastating impact when it lasts beyond its physiological role. Effective treatments for chronic pain remain a largely ...

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 ...

Wood S (2010) Post operative pain 1: Understanding the factors affecting patients’ experiences of pain. Nursing Times; 106: 42, early online publication. Management of post operative pain is complex ...