Researchers at UC Santa Barbara identified a pain pathway in fruit flies that reduces the sensation of pain from heat. The researchers discovered that just a single neuron on each side of the animal’s ...

Pain is good. It’s the body’s way to keep an animal from harming itself or repeating a dangerous mistake. But sometimes the debilitating sensation can get in the way. So evolution has devised ways to ...

The neural mechanisms of many symptoms associated with migraine have yet to be elucidated. New research suggests that a non-image-forming retinal pathway and signals from the dura mater contribute to ...

Inner hair cells (IHCs) and outer hair cells (OHCs) in the cochlear organ of Corti (OOC) are destroyed by high-amplitude, persistent sound; however, because the OOC is not innervated by somatosensory ...

One of the major health problems is pain. Studies indicate that 20% of the general population in both the USA and Europe are suffering from long-term pain. As per the International Association for the ...

There is a largely arbitrary transition between ‘acute’ and ‘chronic’ pain, with temporal cut-offs after which point acute pain becomes chronic pain. Thus, an understanding of the cellular mechanisms ...