Researchers integrated four organoids that represent the four components of the human sensory pathway, along which pain signals are conveyed to the brain. Stimulation of the sensory organoid (top) by ...

Four tiny 3D organs connected themselves in a lab dish, forming a replica of the human pain pathway, in a new study. The discovery allows scientists to better understand chronic pain and how pain ...

Up to 48 hours before a migraine, this region becomes overactive, disrupting functions it normally regulates like sleep and ...

According to current data, migraines are one of the most common neurological disorders worldwide and in the United States. Worldwide, migraines affect about 40% of the population (3.1 billion people).

Men and women experience pain differently, and until now, scientists didn’t know why. New research says it may be in part due to differences in male and female nerve cells. Pain-sensing nerve cells ...

"Let's do it," Shelly Spears told her doctor. "I can no longer live like this." The "it" in this case was a procedure in which doctors would anesthetize an area of her back and then burn off a chunk ...

Scientists have re-created a pain pathway in the brain by growing four key clusters of human nerve cells in a dish. This laboratory model could be used to help explain certain pain syndromes, and ...