Aside from injuries, the second most common reason adults in the United States go to the emergency department is chest pain, accounting for more than 6.5 million visits annually. Despite the growing prevalence of cardiovascular ...
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With the utility of GDP under increased scrutiny as a metric of well-being, Dr. Lucía Macchia argues that people's experience of pain and, how it affects their lives, needs to be better measured and incorporated into policy ...
Feb 16, 2023
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Love isn't easy. Sometimes it's hard.
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That feeling of crushing pain in your chest can be a medical emergency, but it can also be angina pectoris, or "stable angina"—a symptom of coronary heart disease that can be managed with medication.
Feb 7, 2023
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Scientists have worked out why common anti-depressants cause around half of users to feel emotionally "blunted." In a study published today in Neuropsychopharmacology, they show that the drugs affect reinforcement learning, ...
Jan 22, 2023
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Patients with endometriosis reported worse symptoms and impaired mental well-being, during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published in Reproduction and Fertility. The research indicates that ...
Nov 4, 2022
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Humans can smell over 1 trillion odours. But no two people will react in quite the same way to the same smell. While there are some smells almost everyone agrees are unpleasant (such as paint thinner or rotten food), our ...
Oct 21, 2022
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Over the past decades, many neuroscientists have investigated how the mammalian brain modulates pain, trying to uncover the neural mechanisms underpinning chronic pain. Chronic pain is pain in specific parts of the body, ...
Activating a circuit between the amygdala and brainstem relieves pain and reduces defensive behaviors in rats, according to research recently published in JNeurosci.
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