Complex regional pain syndrome is a chronic condition arising ... such as CRPS. Given the chronic nature of this disorder in adults and the difficulties in successfully treating this condition ...

A research team at Stanford University has become the first to assemble a functioning brain circuit in a lab dish by ...

Scientists have long suspected that exposure to nature may reduce people’s experience of pain, and now there may be research to prove it. A new study led by a team from the University of Vienna ...

The study was recently published in the renowned journal Nature Communications. "Pain processing is a complex phenomenon" explains study lead and doctoral student Max Steininger from the ...

Simply watching nature videos can significantly reduce the perception and brain activity associated with acute physical pain.

While seemingly straightforward, rating pain on a scale of 0 to 10 is more complex than it appears, influenced by factors beyond just the intensity of the pain itself.

This finding was further rationalized by Maximilian Steininger, a neuroscientist at the University of Vienna and lead author of a study published in Nature Communications last March 13, after he ...

Created with Sketch. Epigenetics—the science of modifications in how genes are expressed—illustrates the complex interplay between “nature” and “nurture.” An individual’s environment ...