holds that pain is a specific sensation produced by a direct-line pain pathway from pain receptors in the body to a pain centre in the brain. Research based on this theory has investigated ...

Researchers have made a discovery regarding the TRPV1 (transient receptor potential vanilloid 1) ion channel and its role in pain perception. The study reveals how solvent molecules can modulate pain ...

Researchers at the NYU Pain Research Center have found a new receptor for nerve growth factor that plays an important role in pain signaling, even though it does not signal on its own, according ...

A scientist at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) has discovered that halting a pathway triggered in the brain during stressful situations could ...