Pain isn't just a physical sensation—it also carries emotional weight. That distress, anguish, and anxiety can turn a fleeting injury into long-term suffering. Researchers at the Salk Institute have ...

Neuropathic pain affects nearly 10% of the global population, and up to 60% of those individuals also struggle with anxiety ...

New research into the mechanism of the placebo effect sheds light on the brain circuitry involved in pain relief. The study, conducted by scientists at the University of North Carolina (UNC), Stanford ...

The study found that elevated levels of the lipid LPA trigger a cascade of neuroinflammatory events that can lead to pain on ...

Chronic pain may involve both nociceptive pain driven by peripheral tissue damage and nociplastic pain reflecting central nervous system dysregulation, as in fibromyalgia. Electroacupuncture has been ...

Scientists have re-created a pain pathway in the brain by growing four key clusters of human nerve cells in a dish. This laboratory model could be used to help explain certain pain syndromes, and ...

Pain isn't just a physical sensation—it also carries emotional weight. That distress, anguish, and anxiety can turn a fleeting injury into long-term suffering. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

Researchers integrated four organoids that represent the four components of the human sensory pathway, along which pain signals are conveyed to the brain. Stimulation of the sensory organoid (top) by ...

Salk scientists uncover a key neural circuit in mice that gives pain its emotional punch, opening new doors for treating fibromyalgia, migraine, and PTSD LA JOLLA (July 9, 2025)—Pain isn’t just a ...