Should Your Response to Pain Be Considered “Abnormal”? Somatic symptom disorder and the DSM-5 The new category of “somatic symptom disorder” created for the DSM-5 evaluates the coping abilities of ...

ANAHEIM, California — Unique patterns of brain activity, assessed with electroencephalography (EEG), may predict response to specific nonpharmacologic chronic pain treatments. Results from a ...

Since launching her own lab at Yale in 2018, Candie Paulsen and her research team have been working to crack a longstanding mystery: How are pain signals regulated in the human body? And why do they ...

Chronic physical pain can be debilitating, but feelings of stress, fear, and hunger can sometimes suppress painful sensations. Diverse neurons across different brain regions play a role in carefully ...

Given the increased use — and misuse — of opioid medications, it is imperative that we continue to expand access to drug-free pain treatment options that can effectively address the underlying cause ...

In an earlier post, “Chronic Pain Is Not a Disease,” I disagreed with the Institute of Medicine’s idea that chronic pain is a disease. Here, I propose another way to think about chronic pain. I think ...

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 ...

Single-fraction SBRT did not significantly improve bone pain compared to conventional RT. Complete response rates were 37% with SBRT versus 25% with 3D conformal RT at 1 month and remained ...

For most of us, pain is an unwelcome but vital warning system that tells us when something is wrong. However, for the small ...

For decades, differences in pain between men and women have often been attributed to psychological, emotional or social ...