A recent study identifies a brain circuit that controls the aversiveness of headache pain, in an animal model of headache.
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Why Headache Pain Is So Unpleasant
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Pain Nerve Endings Have Some New Company
Researchers discover a novel type of cell that supports the functioning of pain-sensing neurons in the skin.
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Keep At It: Improving an Old Strategy to Find New Treatments for Itch
Evidence from animals and human nerve cells points to a protein in the spinal cord as a potential treatment target for itch.
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An Unattractive Creature Provides Some Beautiful Insights About Pain—or the Lack of It
From the Horn of Africa to the highveld of South Africa, some mole-rat species are insensitive to certain kinds of pain. A new study shows why.
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Creepy-Crawlies in Pain Research: From a Spider Venom to a Pain Reliever in Mice
At the 2019 annual gathering of the Australian Pain Society, Glenn King described how research on spider venoms could lead to a better understanding of the pain system, and to ideas for new treatments.