Investigators at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences have uncovered how heat causes a critical receptor protein within cells to unfold and relay pain, which could open up new ...

In the second world war, the physician Henry Beecher observed that some of his soldier patients, despite being injured on the ...

Fundamental concept to first understand is that you don’t detect pain – it is a sensation that your brain has created – from ...

Pain perception can vary greatly. Sometimes, we feel pain more intensely than expected due to an injury or physical ailment ...

These specialised neurons are called nociceptors – they detect stimuli which are noxious, or potentially damaging to the body. This stimulation might range from a mechanical cut or crush injury ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba used visual threat manipulation in the virtual reality environment and thermal stimulation to investigate how the brain perceives pain. They found that the brain ...