Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), they formalized how the brain combines pain expectations with the actual ...

A team of international researchers including those from the University of Adelaide have taken a well-known chemical reaction ...

How the Brain Integrates Pain Prediction and Stimuli Sep. 23, 2024 — A study has uncovered new insights into how the brain processes and integrates pain information. The research goes beyond ...

Observational studies indicate that people feel more pain when primed with negative emotional stimuli. And additional research has shown that therapeutic interventions that help patients understand ...

"The laboratory research seems to indicate that for many kinds -- but not all kinds -- of stimuli, women have a lower tolerance for pain," says Linda LeResche, ScD, a professor of oral medicine at ...

Those with high levels of SPS display increased emotional sensitivity, stronger reactivity to both external and internal stimuli—pain, hunger, light, and noise—and a complex inner life.

If the dentine becomes exposed, following tooth decay or gum disease for example, painful stimuli such as temperature or certain liquids will cause pain. The researchers studied mice and humans to ...

One of the main physical symptoms of alcohol withdrawal is 'allodynia' -- increased sensitivity to mechanical stimuli that are normally innocuous, which is a clinical sign of chronic pain.