A new study in healthy volunteers shows significant differences in how the brain processes self-touch versus the touch of another person.
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Exercise Can Make Pain Better
Researchers are learning more about how physical activity affects physiological systems to improve pain, in rodents and in people.
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Pain 101—Neuropathic Pain: One Size Does Not Fit All
Pain researchers increasingly recognize that people with pain from nerve injury are not all alike; patient stratification could be the path to better diagnosis and treatment.
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Heard It Through the Grapevine: Can Music Ease Pain?
Researchers at the 2018 IASP World Congress on Pain in Boston discussed how music affects the brain, and its potential as a pain treatment.
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The Role of Expectations in Pain
A study in healthy volunteers shows how pain can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.