New research highlights how the brain’s own chemistry can suppress pain, explaining why severely injured individuals, like WWII soldiers, sometimes feel little discomfort.

Countless saints and mystics have reported inexplicable messages from heaven, but scientists say there is an explanation ...

Listen to Story They worked out the cerebral architecture in a tissue sample The tissue sample was the size of a grain of sand It has over 200,000 cells including roughly 84,000 nerve cells ...

Scientists have re-created a pain pathway in the brain by growing four key clusters of human nerve cells in a dish. This ...

Scientists created a model of the human pain pathway in a dish by connecting four separate brain organoids. The feat should help them understand sensory disorders like those affecting pain perception.

JON HAMILTON, BYLINE: Pain signals often start on the body's surface. Then, says Dr. Sergiu Pasca of Stanford University, they make a long journey. SERGIU PASCA: Nerve terminals in the skin send ...