16 November 2023

Men experience less pain when a woman is in charge

A man who is exposed to physical pain feels less severe pain if he is subjected to pain by a...

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2 August 2022

How sound reduces pain in mice

Scientists have identified the neural mechanisms through which sound blunts pain in mice. The findings could inform development of safer...

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24 January 2022

Intensive care patients speak with their eyes

Intubated, ventilated, unable to speak: due to their condition, many critically ill patients in intensive care are unable to express...

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28 September 2021

New spinout Empower Therapeutics sets its sights on reducing pain ‘chronification’

The University of Birmingham, UK, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore have created a new spinout, Empower Therapeutics, to commercialise a...

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10 December 2020

Kids’ TV teaching children wrong lessons about pain

Children engrossed in popular kids' TV programmes such as Peppa Pig, or films like Toy Story or Frozen, are exposed...

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3 September 2020

Neanderthals may have had a lower threshold for pain

According to a new study, people who inherited the Neanderthal variant of the ion channel that has a key role...

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27 February 2020

McGill researchers end decade-long search for mechanical pain sensor

Researchers at McGill University have discovered that a protein found in the membrane of our sensory neurons are involved in...

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24 October 2019

A more accurate way to gauge pain in mice, yielding potential to help chronic pain patients

For decades, biomedical researchers have used mouse behaviour to study pain, but some researchers have questioned the accuracy of the...

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