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The study found that a brain region called the lateral parabrachial nucleus (LPBN) plays a key role in managing this ...

Physical exercise triggers extracellular vesicles (EVs)—tiny particles in the blood—to act as temporary transport shuttles for key hormone precursors.

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Pain perception in affected individuals is more strongly influenced by learned fear than in healthy individuals. Changes ...

Scientists at Scripps Research have discovered that a drug already approved by the FDA for treating inflammation might also ...

The human brain is a marvel of nature, a labyrinth of neurons and synapses that dictates every aspect of our behavior, ...

If you live with constant lower back pain, surgery can start to look like the only way out. Yet new research from the ...

Researchers at Tulane University, with a team of colleagues from eight other universities, have discovered a new nerve cell signaling mechanism that could transform our understanding of pain and lead ...