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 ...

New program addresses a long-overlooked gap: spouses, parents, and family members who carry their own invisible weight ...

New pain psychotherapies, based on a new understanding of pain neuroscience, offer new possibilities of pain relief.

Diabetic peripheral neuropathy, a condition in which diabetes mellitus damages nerves in the body, leading to chronic pain, affects roughly 37 million people in the United States and 460 million ...

A biomarker signature using brain activity measurements predicted pain sensitivity. The signature combined sensorimotor peak alpha frequency and corticomotor excitability. The study involved 150 ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed a new comprehensive mapping of genetic activity for understanding the causes of chronic pain. The study, published in Nature ...

Chronic pain affected nearly one in four U.S. adults, new CDC survey data showed. In 2023, 24.3% of adults had chronic pain lasting 3 months or longer, reported Jacqueline Lucas, MPH, and Inderbir ...

Summary: A single dose of psilocybin, the active compound found in psychedelic magic mushrooms, can significantly reduce chronic nerve pain and dramatically boost the performance of conventional ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Elevated auditory sensitivity was observed in a cohort of individuals with chronic back pain. Patients with ...

Sometimes, a study on one topic can reveal important issues in another. Case in point: A recent Lancet study explored what a person’s life was like before they developed chronic pain — the diseases ...