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 ...

So when you touch a hot stove, the nerve endings in your fingers react instantly. But the ouch comes a split-second later, when that information finally reaches your brain. Well, now, scientists have ...

Stanford Medicine investigators have replicated, in a lab dish, one of the most prominent human nervous pathways for sensing pain. This nerve circuit transmits sensations from the body’s skin to the ...

But there’s more to scratching than gating in the spinal cord. Deep brain structures stimulated by touch send signals back ...

New research suggests spinal cord and brainstem are essential for processing touch signals as they travel to the brain The sense of touch is essential to almost everything we do, from routine tasks at ...

Scientists have discovered a brain circuit that gives pain its emotional sting, explaining why some hurts linger as suffering. The breakthrough challenges our beliefs about how we process pain and may ...

Recent studies are pointing to the fact that kindness can decrease pain and lessen stress. As Dr. Kapoor notes, pain is largely an evolutionary mechanism to enhance survival and, hence, is largely ...

Source: Getty Images Opioids have been an essential part of anesthesia, but they aren’t the only way to manage pain. Some patients are fearful of using opioids after surgery due to concerns about ...

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 ...