This week, we look at what's really happening when we experience pain, and how a better understanding of this process can open up new possibilities for treatment and healing.

Podcast Episode · Hidden Brain · July 20 · 50m

Emotional and social factors are sometimes overlooked, but they are as important as biological issues for managing chronic pain.

Injuries, infectious diseases, cancers and liver diseases are partly or fully attributable to alcohol. Some diseases can be reversed or slowed with reduced drinking or abstinence.

Pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide, yet no harmonised self-reported reference framework exists to characterise how its burden is distributed across the lifespan and world regions. Here,...

YouTube video by Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Author Rachel Zoffness breaks down why we have chronic pain and how science shows that it’s all in our head

Rachel Zoffness (Tell Me Where It Hurts: The New Science of Pain and How to Heal) is a psychologist, pain scientist, and author. Rachel joins the Armchair Expert to discuss why she was drawn to pain i...

Pfizer, J&J, Eli Lilly, BMS, AstraZeneca, GSK, and more all engaged in systematic bribery schemes, according to decades of OECD reports. That's the Study examines more than two decades of OECD…

The pain associated with bone fracture is mediated by somatosensory neurons, which also appear to be required to initiate bone regeneration. To characterize neuroanatomical circuitry mediating skeleta...