Are you interested in learning more about acute and chronic pain without having to dig through academic articles? These essays and brief articles provide information on various aspects of pain in an easy-to-read format.
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The bane of chronic pain
April 27, 2016
The prevalence and impact of chronic pain is staggering. The U.S. Institute of Medicine’s report,...
Pain is what you feel
April 27, 2016
This simple statement is obvious on the face of it. But it has implications that are not necessar...
Some pain is good for you
April 27, 2016
Generally, we think of pain as a bad thing — something to avoid. And, in fact, avoiding pain is a...
Other pain is not so good for you
April 27, 2016
On the other hand, when pain becomes a chronic condition and no longer serves as a warning system...
The neurobiology of pain
April 27, 2016
Pain, like every other sensory and emotional experience we have, arises from activity in the brai...
The psychology of pain
April 27, 2016
Although we can talk about pain as a sensory phenomenon, in the same way that we talk about other...
We have built-in analgesic systems
April 27, 2016
Not only do our brains have systems to process information from nociceptors and register pain, we...
Placebos are real
April 27, 2016
This statement may seem curious, or downright nonsensical. But, the meaning of this statement dep...
Recent high-quality review of neuropathic pain
December 8, 2017
Colloca, L. et al. Neuropathic pain. Nat. Rev. Dis. Primers3, 17002 (2016). The article can be re...
What a "10" on the 0-10 pain scale looks like
May 3, 2018
Click "here" to see what a "10 on the 0-10 pain scale looks like.