News tagged with painful stimuli
Scientists determine how body differentiates between a scorch and a scratch
You can tell without looking whether you've been stuck by a pin or burnt by a match. But how? In research that overturns conventional wisdom, a team of scientists from the California Institute of Technology and the University ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 19, 2009 |
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Chili peppers help to unravel the mechanism of pain
Capsaicin, the active ingredient in chili peppers, is most often experienced as an irritant, but it may also be used to reduce pain. A new work published by Drs. Feng Qin and Jing Yao in this week's PLoS Bi ...
Biology /
Feb 24, 2009 |
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Hurts so good: Chronic pain changes brain response to acute pain
New research reveals why a stimulus that healthy human subjects perceive as a reward might be processed quite differently in the brains of humans suffering from chronic pain. The study, published by Cell Press in the April15 ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 14, 2010 |
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Nociception and Pain in Teleost Fish
For her doctorate, Janicke Nordgreen has studied nociception and pain in teleost fish. Her conclusion is that it is very likely the fish feel pain.
Jan 12, 2010 |
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