People today are yearning for the experience of being understood. Satisfying this need is key to healing an age of anger and ...

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Many patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) suffer from abdominal pain even between acute inflammatory flare-ups. Altered processing of pain in response to fear may be involved. This is the ...

Many patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) suffer from abdominal pain even between acute inflammatory flare-ups.

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Research suggests that the nerve injury itself is to blame. Itch-sensing nerves, much like pain-sensing ones, can go haywire ...

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This article contains references to suicide and psychological trauma. The Armenian translation of Dr. Bessel van der Kolk’s ...

Researchers developed predictive models using routine clinical metrics to estimate pain modulation profiles in chronic pain.

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