Pain is an important physiological response in living organisms. While physical pain is an outcome of tissue damage, pain can manifest as diverse unpleasant sensory and emotional experiences.

An international team of scientists has identified the neural mechanisms through which sound blunts pain in mice. The findings, which could inform development of safer methods to treat pain, were ...

Soft sounds can soothe mice to a point where they don't feel pain, according to an international team of researchers working with the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research and China's ...

People often think of pharmaceutical treatments and meditation to ease physical pain, but pain can be alleviated with music therapy. A study published in Science explored the neural circuits in the ...

Pain responses are triggered in response to physical injury as well as psychological or emotional stressors. However, the mechanisms underlying social or emotional pain transmission are poorly ...

For decades, biomedical researchers have used mouse behavior to study pain, but some researchers have questioned the accuracy of the interpretations of how mice experience pain. Now, Rutgers ...

For decades, biomedical researchers have used mouse behavior to study pain, but some researchers have questioned the accuracy of the interpretations of how mice experience pain. Now, Rutgers ...