Scientists have uncovered a brain mechanism that may explain why chronic pain leads to depression in some people but not ...

Her research work is conducted within the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Mental Health and Neurodegeneration Themes. She receives Royalties from Cambridge University Press for Brain ...

Over 50 million people in the U.S. live with chronic pain, a third of which have had their entire lives stopped because of it ...

Researchers identify the hippocampus and microglia as the "tipping point" that determines if chronic pain leads to depression or resilience.

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Changes to one's hippocampus, the brain's memory centre, in response to prolonged pain could be an important factor for why some people develop depression in chronic pain, while others do not, ...

Central sensitization in chronic back pain manifested as greater unpleasantness to both pressure and sound, with stronger and more specific amplification for auditory stimuli than mechanical ...

Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) is being used in a new study funded by the NIH at University of California San Francisco to treat chronic pain, and so far has shown a 60% reduction in pain in six ...

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Burnout can manifest in your body in a number of ways before you even realise it. Here is what you need to know about the psychological condition and how it may affect your physical and mental ...

A muscle spasm could mean more than pain in your back — it could also hurt your ears. Despite being the leading cause of ...

(CNN) — One day a few years ago, as I stared at all the sophisticated machinery in my operating room — high-tech microscopes, image navigation tools and exquisitely designed instruments — I was struck ...