I was in my twenties, going through something I couldn’t see the end of. A friend came over, sat on my floor, and just stayed. She didn’t offer solutions. Didn’t tell me it would be okay. Didn’t try ...

Doctronic reports that chest pain can stem from anxiety or serious conditions; knowing symptoms helps determine when to seek medical help.

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, ...

Between four and 10 million people in the U.S. have fibromyalgia. Many doctors look askance at the disorder, leading some ...

A few years ago, I was sitting outside with my neighbor Paul. He’s in his seventies now, the kind of man who still mows his ...

We recently had the opportunity to chat about pain psychology, her work in reducing chronic pain, and the future of personalized medicine and where pain psychology fits in. I hope you find that her ...

Whenever the legacy of colonialism comes up for debate, a Monty Python sketch springs to mind. It’s the one from Life of ...

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 ...

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

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

Radio 1 host Greg James has completed Radio 1's Longest Ride after cycling 1,000km after eight mammoth days raising money for ...

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 ...