Scientists have uncovered a brain circuit linking physical pain to emotional suffering, offering new hope for chronic pain treatment.

Scientists have identified a specific brain circuit that converts physical pain into emotional distress, potentially revolutionizing chronic pain treatments.

Scientists have discovered a brain circuit that gives pain its emotional sting, explaining why some hurts linger as suffering ...

The findings of two recent studies give hope that the disease could one day be reversed in humans—but experts warn that this ...

Pain isn't just a physical sensation—it also carries emotional weight. That distress, anguish, and anxiety can turn a fleeting ...

Scientists have been investigating how the brain makes decisions by participating in the storage of associations between ...

Mice taught to link smells with tastes, and later fear, revealed how the amygdala teams up with cortical regions to let the ...

The Synaptic Physiology laboratory, led by Juan Lerma at the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Miguel Hernández University (UMH) of ...

A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that ...

The Synaptic Physiology laboratory , led by Juan Lerma at the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National Research ...

Deleting a gene called PTEN in certain brain cells disrupts the brain’s fear circuitry and triggers anxiety-like behavior in ...